Loving Someone Quotes

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
- Ernest Hemingway

When I was younger, I used to think that loving someone meant being weak. I thought it meant giving yourself up and losing your identity, and becoming just an other to someone else. I thought that only those who weren't strong enough to stand on their own needed someone to lean on. I never realized that love is as much about giving strength as accepting it, and that love doesn't mean that you can't stand on your own, but only that now you can fly.
- J Leigh Bralick

The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back
- Lauren Barnholdt

Being in love was vastly different from loving someone. When you were in love, it consumed you. Devoured you. And made you deliriously happy.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The twolove and controlling power over the other personare mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
- Rob Bell

I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?
- Haruki Murakami

Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?
- Haruki Murakami

By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?
- Anne Laure Bondoux

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
- Ann Brashares

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.
- Madeleine L Engle

In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
- Nicholas Sparks

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
- Nicholas Sparks

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
- Nicholas Sparks

You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it's all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say that they do love you, but to someone else. To someone they have slept with. Someone that isn't you. I want to forget I heard those three words. I want to dissolve the images I have in my heard of her with him. I think I'm going to throw up.
- Steph Campbell

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.
- Chris Cleave

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
- Ally Condie

Loving someone isn't dumb," Henry said. "I mean, I don't know a whole lot about love, but I don't think it's dumb if it's real.
- Heather Davis

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
- Julie Delpy

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't
- John Green

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.
- John Green

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing
romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege
of being responsible for another.
- John Green

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
- Sarah Dessen

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
- Glen Duncan

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.
- Simone Elkeles

I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
- Janet Fitch

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
- Gillian Flynn

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and hop.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Go back to your ghost, I hear Bryn telling me. But she has it wrong. Bryn is the one who's been living with the ghost-the specter of a man who never stopped loving someone else.
- Gayle Forman

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.
- Neil Gaiman

That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
- Camilla Gibb

As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
- Ellen Hopkins

Sometimes loving someone means letting them go
- Ellen Hopkins

And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.
- Mark Haddon

...loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth..
- Mark Haddon

He wanted to be angry, to scream and rail and feel honest-to-God outrage. But he wasn't that kind of man. His love for Mikaela was more than just an emotion; it was the sum total of who he was. This one thing he knew above everything else. He loved Mikaela too much. Which in its way was as bad as loving someone not enough (Chapter 8).
- Kristin Hannah

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
- S Kelley Harrell

Loving someone isn't a hard task, it's not a chore, you don't wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn't happen! he boomed.
- Holly Hood

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.
- Miranda July

If loving someone is putting them in a straitjacket and kicking them down a flight of stairs, then yes, I have loved a few people.
- Jarod Kintz

She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness. And then, what is the remedy? Can you unlearn your heart's desire? Can you stop loving someone? Easier to drown yourself; easier to take the lover's leap.
- Alma Katsu

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.
- Jhumpa Lahiri

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.
- Ashly Lorenzana

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them
- Melissa Marr

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
- Armistead Maupin

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
- Armistead Maupin

I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.
- Judith Mcnaught

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
- Julianne Moore

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
- Teresa Mummert

Why was love such an addictive drug?
Why did loving someone cause such suffering?
- Guillaume Musso

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
- Walter Dean Myers

Loving someone should never end in all-consuming devastation.
- Tina Reber

I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.
- Lisa See

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
- Jeanette Winterson

There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that.
There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you.
Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?
- Jeanette Winterson

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.
- Lionel Shriver

And I was happy...and devastatingly sad too. It was hard, watching someone you had once loved, loving someone else, and loving them more than they'd loved you. But, really, that's exactly what I'd done to Denny with Kellan -Kiera
- S C Stephens

Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.
- Leah Stewart

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.
- Koushun Takami

But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.
- Cate Tiernan

LOVING SOMEONE IS NOT TOUGH BUT THE REAL COURAGE IS, TO FORGET YOUR LOVING ONE
- Anuj Tiwari

It's funny how you imagine loving someone is enough to make them believe you love them.
Thomas to Elizabeth, The Other Side of You
- Salley Vickers

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
- Kate Winslet

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
- Gabrielle Zevin