I Love You Because Quotes

• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

  Pablo Neruda

  Valentines Day, Fall, Love You

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.

  Juliette Drouet

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Juliette Drouet (1914). “The love letters of Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo”

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• So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

  Simone Elkeles

  Love You, Making Love, Needs

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Humanity, Pawns

  XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2

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• When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

  Arrigo Boito

  Love, Smile, Romantic

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• You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

  Taylor Swift

  I Love You, Cute Love, Anniversary

  Song: Mine, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Hurt, Children, Love You

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• I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water.

  Unknown

  Love You, Water, I Love You Like

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• I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

  Leighton Meester

  I Love You, Mean, Bats

  "Leighton Meester: The "Gossip Girl" You Love to Hate" by Molly Fahner, www.cosmopolitan.com. May 6, 2009.

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Dream

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Valentines Day

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 24, 2013

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• I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Rain, Two

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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• Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love You, Mean, Shadow

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Damen, seriously, you must know I don't love you because you're immortal, I love you because you're you.

  Alyson Noel

  Love You, Immortal, Knows

  Alyson Noel (2011). “Everlasting”, p.192, Pan Macmillan

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love You, Love Is, Reason

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• I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Say Anything, Going Away

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• I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part of the story I am the one who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hate, Moving, Love You

  Pablo Neruda, “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”

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• It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.

  Alyson Noel

  Real, Love You, Acceptance

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• I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Life, Romantic

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