This Valentine’s post was originally published one year ago. Now more than 14,000 views later, it remains the most popular post on Ripple Effects. Again, you’re invited to contribute to this list. Just write down your most memorable movie quote on the theme of love in the comment. Don’t forget to include the movie where it comes from. And, have a wonderful Valentine’s 2009!
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, I’ve compiled a list of memorable quotes from movies, all on the theme of love. All come from movies I’ve seen, some I’ve reviewed on this Blog. They represent dialogues that have stirred some ripples in one small heart. And love…being a many splendid thing, embraces all kinds of human relationships, and transcends cultures and boundaries.
Here’s Arti’s Collection of Memorable Movie Love Quotes:
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Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Dead Poets Society
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The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return. — Moulin Rouge
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The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it’s not because they forget, it’s because they forgive. — Indecent Proposal
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I like you very much. Just as you are. — Bridget Jones’s Diary
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When the planes hit the twin towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge — they were all messages of love. — Love Actually
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Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another. — Emma
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And now, I’m back…and I’ve lost her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have Kelly. But I’m so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? —Castaway
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I don’t believe in quantum physics when it comes to matter of the heart. — Bull Durham
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Shoot me. There’s no greater glory than to die for love. — Love in the time of Cholera
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I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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For you, a thousand times over. — The Kite Runner
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Come back…Come back to me. — Atonement
- Natalie: Do you believe in love at first sight? John: Yes I do. Saves a lot of time. — The Stickup
While a few are lucky enough to save time and escape the torments of love by creating a lasting flame from the first spark, some have to go through tumultuous pining, even the arduous and humbling experience of transforming oneself to gain requited love. And who, other than the following, epitomizes such kind of yearning:
- My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me. — Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
You all are welcome to contribute to this list. Just submit your favorite movie love quotes in the comment box below…and have a memorable Valentine’s 2008!
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How about from As Good As It Gets – “you make me want to be a better man.”
By: Jenny on February 12, 2008
at 9:36 pm
Great quotes! How about Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans: “I WILL find you.”
By: bibliophylia on February 13, 2008
at 6:27 am
‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry’ – from Love Story (1970 production).
Molly
By: Molly Mavis on February 13, 2008
at 11:40 am
“I can’t live a life when every time I see you with that far away look, I wonder if you are thinking of him.”
~ The Way We Were ~
By: Molly Mavis on February 13, 2008
at 11:49 am
A wonderful collection of quotations — nice breadth of source! Happy Valentine’s Day.
By: writinggb on February 13, 2008
at 12:34 pm
“See life with new perspectives, you will learn new things!”
By: Piggy on February 13, 2008
at 8:30 pm
These were great. I love the variety. I really love that line from the Princess Bride at the wedding “love twoo love” not so great a quote but it makes me smile…
By: Ellen on February 14, 2008
at 11:22 am
“You jump, I jump.” Kate Winslett in Titanic
By: Yinling on February 14, 2008
at 7:54 pm
I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. – from “When Harry Met Sally”
By: Nora on February 14, 2008
at 11:31 pm
Oh, those are so sweet! I kinda got misty. Such beautiful quotes! I like that one from The Stickup, though – that one’s sweet and humorous.
By: enemyofenemies on February 15, 2008
at 10:27 am
Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
“Here’s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you’re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me! Kiss me… once…”
By: Georgie Lee on February 15, 2008
at 11:07 am
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.” -Juno
By: Annette on February 15, 2008
at 3:27 pm
I suspect Lauren Bacall and Jane Austen would have gotten along just fine over tea. My favorite movie love lines suggest a bit of the naughty. From To Have and Have Not:
“You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
or from The Big Sleep:
Bogey: “What’s wrong with you?”
Bacall: “Nothing you can’t fix.”
By: Ms. Place on February 16, 2008
at 5:07 pm
I enjoyed all the quotes. I wondered about the source for the one above the Austin one near the lower part of the page (it was a longer one).
How ’bout one from The Bible: “Greater Love hath no man but that he lay down his live for his friends.”
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“God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son into the world (not to condemn the world, but to save it)
Two recent films “The Book of John” &/or “Mathew.
By: Micheline Logan on February 17, 2008
at 11:37 pm
Valentine’s Day, to me, is about love, relationship, and joy.
I believe the greatest act of love ever in the history of the world was God’s act of giving us His Son to make a way for us to be reconciled to Him; that we may be made Holy in His sight, because when he sees us, He looks at us through the eyes of Jesus.
Then, our relationship with God can be restored, and we can walk with Him and continually look to Him for ongoing forgiveness. Then, we can see/touch the world with the spirit/life of Christ.
That is a further “fleshing out” of my comment above.
. . .and when it comes to the movie, “The Bible,” I have to say, “I like the book better. . . “
By: Micheline Logan on February 18, 2008
at 1:31 pm
Here’s my favourite line from Nottinghill, “I’m (also) just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
By: Samantha on February 25, 2008
at 4:37 pm
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
~A Walk To Remember`
By: Andrew on February 27, 2008
at 8:28 pm
“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
-Forrest Gump
By: Lynz on March 6, 2008
at 11:16 pm
The lines I like from Phenomenon
“ Will you love me for the rest of my life?”
“ No， I’ll love you for the rest of mine.”
By: Zoéy on March 18, 2008
at 7:01 pm
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By: Memorable Movie Quotes « Ripple Effects on April 21, 2008
at 12:53 pm
“Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth!” -Pride & Prejudice 1995
By: Tia on May 1, 2008
at 4:03 am
Oh, I see that nora beat me to “When Harry Met Sally.” Darn it ….
By: thegirlfromtheghetto on May 14, 2008
at 2:52 pm
[...] to an ingenious end. With love, bad memories are better than no memories. As I was watching, a movie quote from another film came to mind: The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay [...]
By: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) DVD « Ripple Effects on August 20, 2008
at 6:20 am
Hitch: Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
Hitch: Because that’s what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly, because otherwise you just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down, why in the *hell* did I jump? But here I am, Sarah, falling, and the only one that makes me feel like I can fly… is you.
From the movie (Hitch)
By: natasha on August 22, 2008
at 9:41 am
“It’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day”- Noah, the notebook.
“What do you want? I know what I want, cause I’m holding it in my hands.” -Gerry, PS I love you
By: kirsty on September 22, 2008
at 2:20 pm
“I’m scared of not being with you” – A walk to remember
By: Kaaaaayy on September 28, 2008
at 4:33 pm
“Love is gift…it’s not an obligation…”
–from the movie “fools rush in”
By: japanice on October 19, 2008
at 5:59 am
Love and Death
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love; but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love; to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy; therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
By: ~*Sweety*~ on October 30, 2008
at 1:23 pm
“Imagine a future moment in your life where all of your dreams come true. You know it’s the greatest moment of our life and you get to spend it with one person. Who is standing next to you??”
-ONE TREE HILL
By: Charlene on November 20, 2008
at 10:27 pm
“It’s you! The one I want next to me when all my dreams come true. It’s you!”
-ONE TREE HILL
By: Charlene on November 20, 2008
at 10:30 pm
[...] The scene also offers another Firth moment when Amanda asks Darcy whether he loves her because of her change from the spikey and vulgar modern female to the simpering klutz trying to fit into the Regency mold. Well, truth be told, Darcy finds her character, both before and after, equally disagreeable, but he still loves her with all his heart. Isn’t that the Mark Darcy line to Bridget Jones, “I like you very much, just as you are.” [...]
By: Lost In Austen: Episode 3 (2008, TV) « Ripple Effects on November 26, 2008
at 9:03 pm
But lately I’ve been seeing it differently. Now I think moral fiber’s about finding that one thing you really care about. That one special thing that means more to you than anything else in the world. And when you find her, you fight for her. You risk it all, you put her in front of everything, your life, all of it. And maybe the stuff you do to help her isn’t so clean. You know what? It doesn’t matter. Because in your heart you know, that the juice is worth the squeeze. That’s what moral fiber’s all about. – The Girl Next Door
By: Courtney on December 1, 2008
at 12:03 pm
i have a quote from a book that is being made into a film.
Before you my life was like a moonless night, very dark, but there were stars. Points of light and reason. And then you shot across my sky like a meteor suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything
- New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
By: Ashleigh on January 15, 2009
at 5:07 pm
I found the very best one, Arti !
“If you’re not willing to sound stupid, you’re not worthy of falling in love.”
-A Lot Like Love
By: shoreacres on February 15, 2009
at 10:22 pm
‘This kind of certainty only comes once in a life time.’
~ The Bridge of Madison County ~
By: Molly Mavis on March 18, 2009
at 7:59 pm
.. and so the lion fell in love with the lamb – twilight
By: livvvs x on March 28, 2009
at 3:02 am
Look, I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me. – Runaway Bride
I don’t know where we’re gonna be in 10, 20, 40 years. I don’t know who we’re gonna be. I don’t know if I’m ever gonna be able to give her all of this. There are a million things that I don’t know. But there’s one thing that I do. And that’s that I love Sarah. And I am going to love her day in and day out for the rest of my life. Now, will you please… please… open the gate so I can tell that to my wife. – Just married
By: Boshs1andonly on April 26, 2009
at 6:44 am
“I think I would’ve missed you even if I’d never met you” – The Wedding Date
By: beerdog12 on June 13, 2009
at 11:20 am
Hope guides me, that is what gets me through the day and the night. The hope that after you’re gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you…
~A knight’s tale~
By: Bianca on June 20, 2009
at 8:21 am
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday”
-The Notebook
By: Maxine on July 7, 2009
at 10:29 am
It’s not about keeping your promises, and it’s not about following your heart. It’s about security.
-The Noteboook
By: Maxine on July 7, 2009
at 10:29 am