Ani DiFranco Quotes

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.

I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.

The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.

It's easy to love people who love you.

Love is not just defined by making love or kisses or gifts. It is beyond that.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.