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

  Arrigo Boito

  Love, Smile, Romantic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, Only Love

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.218, Dial Press

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• 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 in blood.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Fire, Blood

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

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Love You, Forever

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.18, Grove Press

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• Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Beautiful, Dream, Sweet

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Immature

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

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• I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011

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