Erica Jong: Quotes about love

Erica Jong is Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Erica Jong: 190 quotes14 likes

“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”

“Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily… Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.”

Source: Sappho's Leap

“I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“…I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Hate generalizes; love is particular.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“It is our old love I love.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“In loving life you love what can't survive…”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)