Love's Price Quotes

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.