Quotes about love
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“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Women, Hate

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

Romantic, love

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”

Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz

Source: The Wine of Solitude

Thinking

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Time

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

Alice Walker book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

People, Madness

“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? […] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Source: Journal of a Solitude

Reality, Sense, Time

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11

Life, Girl, Boy, Question

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) Brazilian writer

“Immerse your soul in love”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)
Variant: Immerse your soul in love

Soul

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Wise, For Him

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Lovers, Sad, Heartbreaking, Cute

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Dreams, Reality

“Eyes watching always
Shadows in shadows they wait
A black feather falls

First accepted, loved
Then betrayed-spit in the face
Vengeance sweet like dots.”

Kristin Cast book Hunted

Source: Hunted

Waiting

“… love is deep attention, deep compassion…”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

The Museum of Innocence

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

Thinking

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Hate, World

“True love stories never have endings.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Relationship, Cute, Powerful, Romantic

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

People, Books, Music, Reading

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Course of Love

Pain, World, Hurt

“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

In 'Time' magazine (26 June 1950)
1950s

Lovers, Drink, Study, Learning

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Source: Letters to Vera

World, Star

“Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

Stupidity

“Love is the last light spoken.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Light

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”

Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal

Source: The Thief's Journal

People, Idea

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Life, Happiness

“To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life

“You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“I set off, off to kill the man I love.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Fear

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

Happiness, Cats

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 22
Context: Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Passion

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

Men, Time

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Thinking, Drawing

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

World, Light

“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Heart

“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Men, Heart

“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ

Life, Women, Men, Hell

“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”

Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer

Source: Dying to Know You

Parting

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

Life, Soul, Learning

“Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Soul, Heart

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
Context: I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Context: I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Truth, Reality, Evil

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).
Context: Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life, Time

“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life

“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”

Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist.

Relationship

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

Time

“There's no love like the first.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore (2002)

Sadness, Feeling, Search, Lovers

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Hate

“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

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Guy, Thinking, Evil

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

World, Change

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

World, Beauty, Heart

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb

Valentine's Day, For Him

“Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Beauty, Passion

“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

Disappointment

“Love between a man and woman is war.”

August Strindberg (1849–1912) Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter

War

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Source: Wall and Piece

Hate, People

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

God, Universe, Good Night, Cute

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. <br class="br"> P. 97 http://books.google.com/books?id=iGS8q_odsKAC&q=%22Wo+die+Liebe+herrscht+da+gibt+es+keinen+machtwillen+und+wo+die+macht+den+vorrang+hat+da+fehlt+die+Liebe+Das+eine+ist+der+Schatten+des+andern%22&pg=PA97#v=onepage <br class="br">The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Faith, Personality, Sincerity