Paulo Coelho: Quotes about love

Paulo Coelho is Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

Paulo Coelho

“Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“People destroy what they love.”

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

“My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.
But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. … Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Maria's diary entry at the age of 17, p. 16.
Eleven Minutes (2003)

“Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)