“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
1990s
Source: [Can Man Live Without God, 1994, 9780849939433, 6]
“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”
Karl Rahner (1904–1984) German Catholic theologian
Source: The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 <br class="br">Source: 1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques
Act IV, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)
“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer
Source: Dreaming Water
“Future hipsters will love me ironically.”
Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“and love was lightning and remembrance”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
“Music is only love looking for words.”
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Lord Goring, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Source: Forbidden Falls
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
Stanza 1.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: The Great Book of Amber
P. C. Cast (1960) American writer
Source: Goddess of the Sea
“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor
“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.”
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke - A Soul History
“I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Source: A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
Terry Pratchett book Sourcery
Source: Sourcery
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Lawrence Durrell book Monsieur
Source: Monsieur
“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ <br class="br">Disputed
“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.”
P. C. Cast book Awakened
Source: Awakened
“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
