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 am in love with you.
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KELLY JONES Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was st... JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you, he said quietly. Augustus, I said. I am, he said. He was staring a... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY I can guarantee it, " Jenks said as their eyes met. The second that you see her, you will fall in lo... KIM HARRISON I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and l... YAYOI KUSAMA As much as I enjoy romance, it’s commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depe... STEVE GOODIER There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Heaven is all around you. You just can’t see us because we are vibrating at a higher level than yo... KATE MCGAHAN Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afra... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything,... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. GARY ZUKAV Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. GARY ZUKAV I don't have all of the answers to the world. I don't know everything about life and marriage and ha... MORDRED What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. OPRAH WINFREY Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t... SUSAN ANDERSEN And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person yo... BETHANY BROOKBANK Across the years I will walk with you in deep, green forests, on shores of sand. When our time on ea... FEMALE IMAGINATION Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will k... OSHO I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I w... BINDI IRWIN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I don’t know everything about life and marriage and happiness. But I do know what love is. And I d... MORDRED He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or w... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My dearest, I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th... NICHOLAS SPARKS Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love ... COCO J. GINGER I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT FE + C is steel. U + I is love. JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN Sun shines on my back as I walk away Sun shines on my chest and I return The fall air is c... BRENT M. JONES Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discove... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t... MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all have the ability to heal ourselves; I know, I have done so... In the morning, know that ... LISA BELLINI She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL You're so beautiful But that's not why I love you And I'm not sure you know That t... AVRIL LAVIGNE If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are cont... PIERCE BROSNAN Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I a... PAULO COELHO We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true fa... CRISTINA MARRERO Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and ... THICH NHAT HANH I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect. You will love his values, ... ADAM HERBERT I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go ... JODI PICOULT There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d... CASSANDRA CLARE Oh, I love it. I love that guy. I wish he didn?t have a girlfriend, ... Did I say that out loud? I d... CHRISTIAN FAURIA Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries... ELIZABETH GILBERT I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else. JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE I kind of took it easy all day just so I could get in the car to come over and do that. You know, La... BOB ROGERS Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me... BROTHER LAWRENCE I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love,... J.A. REDMERSKI But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose we... CLAIRE DANES And we will share a drink. Yeah we will share our fears and they will know how I love them.They will... CONOR OBERST Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can onl... MAX MULLER I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. RICHELLE MEAD I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. On... ABBI GLINES And I love you," Kieran said. "You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love... CASSANDRA CLARE That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach o... BHAGAVAD GITA This is the sacred secret of love. Love a person for their heart and only their heart, and you will ... SUZY KASSEM You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you,... CASSANDRA CLARE Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit. JAIME CONTRERAS When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews? SARAH JESSICA PARKER I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'P... E.M. FORSTER That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain. TWIST AND SHOUT If I was drowning you would part the sea And risk your own life to rescue me . . . JAMIE MCGUIRE The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS You know when we are blessed when our love strengthens for each other, that’s how you know God has... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders... ALICE WALKER That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS I could go on all night, Lake. I could go on and on and on about all the reasons I’m in love with ... COLLEEN HOOVER Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of... JERLINE
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