Quotes about love
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“If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.”

Megan McDonald (1959) American children's literature author

Source: The Sisters Club

Way

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Hate

“Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.”

Louise L. Hay book You Can Heal Your Life

Source: You Can Heal Your Life

“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Soul, Personality

“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.”

Bertrand Russell book Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

Hate, Way

“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Making love, Way

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

Heart

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”

Joyce Kilmer Trees and Other Poems

"Trees" - This poem was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol. 2 (August 1913). The first two lines were first written down on the 2nd of February 1913.
Trees and Other Poems (1914)
Source: Trees & Other Poems
Context: I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Thinking, Tree

“I think we deserve people who really, really love us.”

Alicia Keys (1981) American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

People, Thinking

“May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

God, Peace, Faith, Soul

“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Parlement of Foules

Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4; comparable with Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
Source: The Parliament of Birds

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

Scott Westerfeld book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Hate

“Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Hate

“… the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Children, Confidence, Effort

“I love you, too."
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

Peace, Hope, Problem

“If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

Understanding, Parent

“I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Heart

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

Success, Relationship, Cute, Heart Touching

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4

Knowledge

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl book The Twits

Source: The Twits

Personality

“I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Variant: I'm not going to give you a hard time. I'm just going to love you whether you want me to or not.
Source: The Indigo Spell

“You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Feeling, Time, Night

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian

Forgiveness, Wise, Faith

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Heart, Sad, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

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

Source: The Gay Science

Learning

“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason…”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs

Source: Venus in Furs

Forgiveness

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Peace, Problem, Thinking, Peaceful

“…"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”

Harlan Coben (1962) Author

“Its a fine line between love and stalking.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Thinking, Passion, Forgetting

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

World, For Wife

“Anyone can slay a dragon… but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

World

“It is better to be feared than loved.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Fear, Positive, Good Night

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.”

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996) American artist

Happiness, Sadness, Hope, Art

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

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

Family, Family

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Anita Shreve book The Weight of Water

Source: The Weight of Water

Knowledge, Thinking, Learning, Night

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Books, School, Light, Time

“In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

Women, Men

“Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?”

Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

People

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Disease

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

Hate, Fear, Intelligence, Learning

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Selfishness, Missing You, For Wife

“I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

Stephen King book The Body

Source: The Body

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Make love’s quick pants”

William Shakespeare Othello

Othello

Making love

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

Life

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

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

“Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake.

All the vines are ripening
And the trees come into bud,
For my love's footsteps passing by
Are summoning the spring.

Rian's stars in the night
Shine more brightly over her,
The god's moon and the goddess's
Guard her with their light.

Even the birds above the lake
Are singing of my love,
And even the flowers along the shore
Are growing for her sake”

Guy Gavriel Kay (1954) Canadian author of fantasy fiction

Source: A Song for Arbonne

God, Star, Spring, Flowers

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”

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

Hate, Fear, Fools

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

Christopher Morley book Parnassus on Wheels

Variant: When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.
Source: Parnassus on Wheels

Life, Friendship, Books, Sea

“Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Dragon Heir

Flying

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God, Pleasure, Thinking

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Life, Peace, Effort, Success

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

Romain Rolland (1866–1944) French author

As quoted in On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers (1999) by Kimberly Kirberger

Life

“Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain

“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Hate, Learning

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

Life, Heart

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”

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

Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan (27 August 1856) http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=14&subjectID=2, Collected Works 1:391 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:391?rgn=div1;view=fulltext <br class="br">1850s

“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Time

“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”

Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet

Truth, Reality, Time, Personality

“I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Way, Parting

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

Interview, Hollywood Reporter (1954)

Housing, Wise, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank

People, Personality

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

World, Beauty, Courage, Laughter

“Don't let me wander from Your love,
Don't let me leave Your door,
And if I lose myself,
Let me find myself with You.”

Yunus Emre (1240–1321) Turkish sufi

“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

War, Fear, Home

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

God, Home, Light

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Understanding

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

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

1950-07-17 http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,6761,222716,00.html <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Pain, Heart