Honore de Balzac Quotes

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

How vast a memory has Love!

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

A first love always occupies a special place.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.

Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.

Love would never leave us alone

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

I do believe in one true love.

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief.

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.