LOVE: Extracts from 30+ different authors

Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don’t think there’s anything sadder than when two people are meant to be together and something intervenes. — Walter Bishop

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves . — Federico García Lorca, 

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

— Mike Carey, from Lucifer Vol. 5: Inferno (Vertigo, 2004)

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I wanna love you more than madly. wrap these legs, around your words. Until your speech is straddled deep, gladly. Swim the currents of your vibrations. Be separate and one. With the same meditation. With the same meditation. This is poetry. — Akua Naru - “Poetry, How Does It Feel”

long to see you in the morning light. I long to hold you in the night. — Bob Dylan, Lay Lady Lay

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. — Andre Breton.

I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey.A piercing joy, that leaves me empty,conquered, silenced. — Anaïs Nin

Something unstilled, unstillable is within me; it wants to be voiced. A craving for love is within me; it speaks the language of love. — Friedrich Nietzsche 

Go for the person who makes you smile with all your heart and soul. The person whom you can’t wait to see or talk to. This is the person whom you’re meant to be with. The person that you know in your heart is right for you. — Unknown

Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames. — Veronica Roth

Look in the mirror and tell yourself out loud that you’re proud of yourself. We’ve all been through many different things and we are still standing today. Say it.. “I’m proud of myself.” It feels amazing. I told you. You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand. — L.J. Smith

 Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

But to come home each night and be so deeply understood would be the greatest gift of my life. — Clementine von Radics 

I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once. — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should. — Tuck, The Best of Me

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
— Henry Rollins

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for intentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.— Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. — Henry Rollins

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. 

- Doris Mortman

Those eyes that can make me feel so safe in one little look — Wattpad

Open your fucking eyes. I’m crazy about you. — S.R // Excerpts from the book I’ll never write

The strong are those who can be happy despite everything.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. — Mary Pickford

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you. — Haruki Murakami

Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount. — Haruki Murakami

We live in a disposable world. But you are not disposable. You are a unique individual. Who you are and what you do matters. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. — Unknown

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’. Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’ — Charlie Brown

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. — Ram Dass

That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt. — John Green, A Fault in Out Stars

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.— John Green

Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. [Likewise], holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ — Bobbe Sommer

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch - it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins… — Jeff Brown

I don’t have the prettiest face for you to see, or the skinniest waist for you to hold, but I do have the biggest heart to love you with. — John Green, A Fault in Out Stars

One of the worst forms of pain Is seeing your loved one crumple.And there’s nothing you can do to ease their pain — Anas rose

 I am where I am because you have loved me. - unknown