Quotes About The Ones We Love

“What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.”

— Hal Herzog

“Love your neighbor, even the ones who do not show you the same courtesy. You can't expect to receive love if you're selective and not really willing to give it. What you put into the world, you will indeed get back, even if it's not from the person you're expecting it to be.”

— Alexandra Elle

“As the night air started to creep in, he lifted her in his arms and walked the back way to their home on campus. He spent the evening digging her grave, not even caring who came his way. He didn't care whether he lived or died, now that he had lost his only love. Mike glanced into her face one more time, and then covered her with dirt. "We bury our own. We take care of the ones we love." He spoke softly, then placed a flower on her grave and made his way back to their dorm room.”

— Joseph McGinnis

“Sometimes it is the ones we love the most are what we value the most.”

— Angela Brown

“Love is a funny thing. The ones we love don't always love us back.”

— Scylar Tyberius

“Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.”

— Frederick Weisel

“The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God.”

— Val McDermid

“We think we know the ones we love, and though we should not be surprised to find that we don't, it is heartbreak nonetheless. It is the hardest kind of knowledge, not just about another but about ourselves. To see our lives as a fiction we have written and believed. Silence and lies. The sensation I felt that evening
that I did not know my Holland, did not know myself, that it was perhaps impossible to know a single soul on earth
it was a fearful loneliness.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Love is madness," I say. "Doesn't everyone agree that you'd do anything, endure anything, to be with the ones you love? So either you're willing to let them use you with any sort of cruelty, so long as they keep you-which makes you a fool-or you're willing to commit any cruelty, so long as you get to keep them-which makes you a monster. Either way, it's madness.”

— Rosamund Hodge

“My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.”

— Delphine De Vigan

“To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time-and to be at peace with that.”

— Daisy Whitney

“Sometimes the ones we love are like butterflies, flitting all over, and we have to sit and wait patiently for them to land. Sometimes they never do, and that's a risk we take. But sometimes what they need most is to see us sitting still, patient, waiting. To understand that we're going to be there no matter what, that we're the ones who are always sitting there waiting, loyal, loving. Sometimes that's more powerful than any words.”

— Heidi Cullinan

“The ones we love often don't need our judgment-they need our prayers. - Dianne Fraser -”

— Gary Chapman

“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“That we never know what's in the heart of people when we judge them. Actions that sometimes seem mean aren't. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I wasn't always broken; we are all born pure. It is our journey that burdens us and leads us astray. Our mistakes that beat us down and cover us in guilt and shame, burying us a little more with each successive hardship. It is up to us to dig ourselves out, to come to terms with our faults, to embrace not only our imperfections but those of the ones we love, and to once again find the path we strayed from.”

— Madeline Sheehan

“We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.”

— Cristiane Serruya

“And Rocky still sounds angry at me for drilling a hole through his skull. I only did it to keep him close. Woulda lost him otherwise. Do we have to hurt the ones we love to keep them close?”

— Hugh Howey

“We live and we love and we hurt each other. We don't always say the right thing, or do the right thing at the right moment. Sometimes we need space, and distance, and sometimes words fall from our lips that shouldn't have been said. [ ... ] And we always hurt the ones we love most. If we didn't love so love so much, it wouldn't hurt so much.”

— Lauren Blakely

“Love, then, must be true to the ones we love and to ourselves, and also to its own laws. I cannot be true to myself if I pretend to have more in common than I actually have with someone whom I may like for a selfish and unworthy reason.”

— Thomas Merton

“We always hurt the ones we love, darling.”

— E.L. James

“Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn't make it better.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“And she lowered her eyes at the gentle reproach, for she had learned her lesson, even if there would be occasional, but only very occasional, relapses; for none of us is perfect, except, of course, the ones we love, the things of home, our much appreciated dogs and cats, our favourites of one sort or another.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we love the most. Whenever we come home from playing nice and kissing ass instead of lips, we remove the masks and be who we really are.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?”

— Emily Giffin

“I was about to say that we all hurt the ones we love. That we can't help it and that for some reason, we're just defective like that. Maybe because those we love most bring out the very best and the worst in us, and in some twisted way, we resist that magic.”

— Rachael Wade

“I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and all the ways we love. They are the reason we know how to love at all.”

— Lisa Wingate

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most-especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.”

— Anne Lamott

“I take great comfort in believing that life doesn't end, it just changes. Our bodies are pure energy. Energy doesn't die, it transforms. I believe that when we die, we simply change from our human form to our spiritual form and we continue to love, guide and protect the ones we love on earth, as much as our energy will allow. It is the only logical explanation that makes perfect sense. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama”

— Tanya Masse

“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. -UNKNOWN Loss is a part of life. Over the years I've lost several people who are dear to my heart. Nothing can ever bring them back but when I think of them, their values and virtues, I can keep their spirit alive within me and that is a meaningful feeling. The most important thing to remember, however, is to make the most of the precious time we have with the ones we love. Goal: Light a candle or say a prayer for someone you love today who is no longer with you.”

— Demi Lovato

“As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”

— Anne Rice

“BAD THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE CAN'T CHANGE BUT THAT IS NO REASON YO SHUT OUT THE ONES WE LOVE”

— Anonymous.

“The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.”

— Ethan Hawke

“He said we'd become stars when we died watching over the ones we love. Now I watch the sky every night hoping to find him there.”

— Morgan Rhodes

“That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.”

— John Connolly

“In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!”

— David E. Sorensen

“Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...”

— Carew Papritz

“It was dangerous to overflow, because we might end up flooding areas occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].”

— Jamie Yeo

“In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.”

— Duke Kahanamoku

“It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.”

— Vincent McNabb

“For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.”

— Dan Barber

“Actions that sometimes seem mean aren't. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please”

— Paul Westerberg

“To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me.”

— Hayley Williams

“Every now and then the stars align,
Boy and girl meet by the great design,
Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?
Everybody told me love was blind,
Then I saw your face
and you blew my mind,
Finally you and me are the lucky ones, this time”

— Lana Del Rey

“The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”

— Larry Page