John Fowles: Quotes about love

John Fowles was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.

His fairy story.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one's uniqueness, one falls in love with one's complexity.”

John Fowles book Daniel Martin

Source: Daniel Martin (1977), Ch. 2, Games

“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”

John Fowles book Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin (1977)

“To my horror I began to cry…a great cloud of black guilt, knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. One day she had said “when you love me (and she had not meant ‘make love to me’) it’s as if God forgave me for being the mess I am”; and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and give me a sense of responsibility towards her…My monstrous crime was Adam’s, the oldest and most vicious of all – male selfishness…Something far worse than lèse majesté. Lèse-humanité.”

John Fowles book Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin (1977)