Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?