I Loved You Quotes - Page 8

• I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Married, Died, Knows

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• I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
  And having known you, love you better still.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Love You, Stills

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• Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Beauty, Ancient

  "Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J." edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.

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• I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Love, Eye, Mad

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• But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

  Natalie Portman

  I Love You, Thinking, Too Late

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• My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

  William Shakespeare

  I Love You, True Love, Wedding

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• I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Happy Anniversary, World

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• If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Literature, Might

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.262, Wild Jot Press

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• How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.

  Ruskin Bond

  Distance, Moving, Attachment

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• I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Saws, Chairs

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1416, Penguin

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• I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Romantic, Writing

  Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

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• I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

  Franz Wright

  People, Loving You, Tongue

  Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

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• I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

  Raymond Carver

  Memories, Believe, Laughing

  Raymond Carver (1989). “Elephant and other stories”

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• You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Art, Stupid

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• I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Today, Saws, Whom The Bell Tolls

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love You, Destiny, Long

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• I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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