“She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.”
More from Alice Hoffman on Love
“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”
“You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.”
“It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.”
“Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.”
“I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”