George MacDonald Quotes

If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

Love requited is a short circuit.

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.