love quotes
"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul."
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
"And yet I had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
​-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"I ask you to pass through life at my side to be my second self, and my best earthly companion."
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
"Love is real - the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know."
-Charlotte Bronté, Shirley
"Reader, I married him."
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
-Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind
"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught."
-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you now ardently I admire and love you."
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."
-Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity ."
-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."
-Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears”
-Emily Bronté, Wuthering Heights
“And yet I had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!”
-Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”
-Jane Austen, Persuasion
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
-Jane Austen, Emma
“' I have something I need to tell you,' he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. 'I might be in love with you,' he smiles a little. 'I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.'
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'That's sensible of you,' I say, smiling too. 'We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something.'
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I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.
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'Maybe I'm already sure,' he says, 'and i just don't want to frighten you.'
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I laugh a little. 'Then you should know better.'
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'Fine,' he says. 'Then I love you.'"
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-Veronica Roth, Divergent
“I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
“He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest - blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
“'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.
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'Augustus,' I said.
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'I am,' he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. 'I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you."'
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
“Because, he said, “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you – especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, – you’d forget me.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
“This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another."
-Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
“He was the first to recognize me, and to love what he saw.”
-Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre
"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been stuck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
