Mary Oliver Quotes

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.