Rupi Kaur Love Quotes & Sayings

i am learning how to love him by loving myself — Rupi Kaur

the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you — Rupi Kaur

he only whispers i love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants. this is where you must understand the difference between want and need - you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him — Rupi Kaur

that's the
thing about love
it marinates your lips
till the only word your
mouth remembers
is his name — Rupi Kaur

your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart — Rupi Kaur

i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you. — Rupi Kaur

most importantly love
like it's the only thing you know
at the end of the day
all this means nothing
this page
where you're sitting
your degree
your job
your money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them — Rupi Kaur

the one who arrives after you will remind me love is supposed to be soft he will taste like the poetry i wish i could write — Rupi Kaur

what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form — Rupi Kaur

I've had sex, she said
But I don't know
What making love
Feels like — Rupi Kaur

I know I
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its knees
every
night. — Rupi Kaur

he was supposed to be
the first male love of your life
you still search for him
everywhere

- father — Rupi Kaur

i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.

but then.

there are some nights i imagine what i might do if you showed up. how if you walked into the room this very second every awful thing you've ever done would be tossed out the closet window and all the love would rise up again. it would pour through my eyes as if it never really left in the first place. as if it's been practicing how to stay silent so long only so it could be this loud on your arrival. can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn't leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you. — Rupi Kaur

how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again. — Rupi Kaur

the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art — Rupi Kaur

perhaps the saddest of all
are those who live waiting
for someone they're not
sure exists — Rupi Kaur

there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you — Rupi Kaur

Love speaks to
The soul
In a language
The brain
Can't comprehend. — Chris Mc Geown

accept that you deserve more
than painful love
life is moving
the healthiest thing
for your heart is
to move with it — Rupi Kaur

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you — Rupi Kaur

i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him — Rupi Kaur

I'd be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in. — Rupi Kaur

no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like — Rupi Kaur

love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love — Rupi Kaur

love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already — Rupi Kaur

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant. — Rupi Kaur

sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape — Rupi Kaur

i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth. — Rupi Kaur

i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me — Rupi Kaur

i was music
but you had your ears cut off — Rupi Kaur

what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn't know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave you. coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these things after you left. — Rupi Kaur

the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic — Rupi Kaur

every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you - to fathers with daughters — Rupi Kaur

I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete — Rupi Kaur

fall
in love
with your solitude — Rupi Kaur

I understand this world broke you. It has been so hard on your feet. I don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. Sometimes I stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. I come from the same aching blood. From the same bone so desperate for attention I collapse in on myself. I am your daughter. I know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. Cause it's the only way I know how to tell you. — Rupi Kaur