Once Was Love Quotes

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was. — Claudia Gray

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it. — Michael Phelps

that that wasn't love I was feeling. It was a way to temporarily forget that I was once unloved and so easily discarded. — Michelle A. Valentine

Once upon a time there was a boy who didn't get to fall in love. The End. — John Goode

I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much. — Ella Eyre

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. — Pat Conroy

Cyrus had once claimed that revenge was what made the world go round. Back then Evie had argued with him that it was love. But now she knew better. — Sarah Alderson

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes. — Jeffrey McDaniel

There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too. — Markus Zusak

It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. — Dominique Dawes

I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. — W.C. Fields

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed. — Ronald Reagan

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. — Helen Keller

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends. — Emery Lord

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over ... — Daniel Defoe

Dawson, like Tuck, was one of those people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings stronger. — Nicholas Sparks

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive. — Louise Erdrich

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was. — Brenda Perlin

Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. — Mary Shelley

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone? — J.K. Rowling

I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. Once again, it scared me half to death. — Kia Amazona

Love on one side was defeating love on the other, because it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfied. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen

....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul. — Heather R. Blair

I was in love once, and it was terrible. — Gloria Trevi

Troy and I loved each other. We called it 'unconditional love', which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated. — Joseph Fink

I was adored once too. — William Shakespeare

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. — Garry Shandling

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once. — Jeremy Glass

Why was it always the woman who had to sacrifice for love? Just once, couldn't a guy do it instead? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters. — Subhan Zein

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. — Stephen Richards

They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers. — Rebecca Serle

I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime. — Nick Joaquin

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love. — Philippa Gregory

Somewhere a million miles away, the girl I once loved was going down her road, and I was stuck back on mine. — Jennifer Flackett

Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air. — Robert Frost

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything, Ray said once, in an interview. — Neil Gaiman

Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he'd never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.
Fuck him. — Kristen Ashley

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail. — Alysia Abbott

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago. — David Nicholls

'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it. — Adam Levine

He was at once to great and too small for love. — W. Somerset Maugham

And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
She tried to smile once more and expired — Victor Hugo

I didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess. — Nicholas Sparks

It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm) — Bertolt Brecht

I was in love once. It was terrible. — Gloria Trevi

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love. — Laurell K. Hamilton

It was bold, but I have always been a "you only live once, so let your love show and takes risks" kind of person. — Drew Barrymore

I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine. — Novala Takemoto

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine. — Mason Cooley

I am convinced I was once a tree, this is why I love them so. — Raul Brandao

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. — Kate Morton

I had no idea that once you realized you were in love, it was nearly fucking impossible to keep it to yourself — Karina Halle

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be — Anne Leonard

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember? — Marilyn Monroe

Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he'd loved her. And then when he'd stopped, it wasn't really his fault. — Sarina Bowen

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music ... Speak to me! — Lord Byron

I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab. — Dougie Poynter

Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you. — Marge Baylin

Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No — William Dalrymple

It was getting harder and harder to be around her without touching her, kissing her, making her his once and for all. — Cathryn Fox

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football. — Ben Roethlisberger

You touch my soul, woman. You touch what I am, what I once was, and what I will be. — Nina Bangs

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself. — Emily Levine

I once had a complete life - in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death. — Prashant Chopra

True, I only properly started talking with Todd half an hour ago, but every instance of undying love was only half an hour young, once upon a time. — David Mitchell

Sometimes the only reason why you
won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he was the only one
that once made you happy. — Lily Amis

This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Yet love was not something to be thrown aside lightly. It came so rarely, only a few times in a mortal life. Some- times it came but once — Cassandra Clare

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver

A toast before we go into battle. True love. In whatever shape or form it may come. May we all in our dotage be proud to say, 'I was adored once, too. — Jenn McKinlay

Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!? ... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! — Bill Watterson

How could I stay with him, once I knew that he felt like being in love with me was his cross to bear? — Rainbow Rowell

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes." ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl — Kimberly Kinrade

Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love. — Dennis Lehane

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler

It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed. — Adam Gopnik

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once? Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was. — Donna McDonald

What once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed. — Nenia Campbell

Caleb once told me that love was a desire and desire was an emptiness. — Tarryn Fisher

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once. — Tom Cruise

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia — Gayle Forman

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. — Andrei Codrescu

Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark. — Kristin Hannah

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. — Nina LaCour

She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once - because you could love them in different ways. — L.J.Smith

It was hard to let go of love. Once woven, its ribbon was hard to tear, and this one she'd woven quite firmly herself. — Cornelia Funke

You asked of me once, how high, high can beor if there was an exhibit..
I smiled and then whispered..
My thighs are the limit ... — Shanica Stewart

For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him. — Vanessa Lachey

He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me. — Jason Lloyd

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for. — Scott Spencer

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run. — Caroline Hanson