Quotes about love
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“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Life, Death, World, Thinking

“Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Hurt

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Star, Sun

“You say you’re? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Thinking

“But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Hate, Summer, Housing

“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Source: Life of Johnson, Vol 4

Reading

“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Death

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

Hate

“People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Variant: As long as you understand the difference. People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.
Source: Reflected in You

People

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

“And where love ends, hate begins”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Hate

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

Cathy Guisewite (1950) Cartoonist

Food

“Fang, fang. I love you. I looooove you. I love you thiiiiiiiiiis much!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

Life, Time

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

Sermon 39 Catholic Spirit http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/sermons/39/ from the 1872 edition of Wesley's Complete Works - Thomas Jackson, editor <br class="br">Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)

God, Children, Thinking, Heart

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

People

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion

Suffering

“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: Selected Poems

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Variant: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Source: Northanger Abbey

Friendship, Disappointment

“A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Feeling, Suffering, Learning, Change

“We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Way, Success

“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

Reality, Reading

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Parent

“There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Soul, Loneliness

“A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

Thomas Hardy book The Return of the Native

Source: The Return of the Native

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

Evil

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Light, Appearance

“I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Life, People, Thinking

“What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Beauty

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Patience, Loyalty, Relationship

“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.”

Julie Anne Peters Luna

Source: Luna

Help

“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Variant: Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion".
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Wisdom, Hope, Past

“I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”

Marilynne Robinson (1943) American novelist and essayist

Source: When I Was a Child I Read Books

God, World, Imagination, Thinking

“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”

Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American sportswriter

Making love

“You don't analyze love. You accept it.”

Nina Bangs

My Wicked Vampire

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

God, Lovers

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Dreams, Thinking, Waiting

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Hate, World

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Training

“Love is wiser than wisdom.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

Wisdom

“I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Magnus, pg. 137
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Uncle Charles”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Men, Girl

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

Source: Selected Poems Selected Poems

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Fools

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Variant: If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
Source: No Death, No Fear

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hate

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Life, Time

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Law

“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Return of the Native

Lovers, Passion, Loneliness, Madness

“I did it because I love you!" he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, "I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Many people don't allow themselves to love… because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

People, Past, Future

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

Brother Lawrence book The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

Hope, Perseverance

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden

“And love … love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: The Book of Joe (2005), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Book_of_Joe.html?id=_T5MCwAL4owC,

Pain

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Memory

“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”

John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer

Study

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Life, Nature, Passion

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Men, Hate, Fear, Hope

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef

Source: Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

Cooking

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Winnie the Pooh

“… love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Course of Love

“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Fear

“She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Boy

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Pain

“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”

Thomas Malory (1405–1471) English writer, author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur''

Pain

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Hurtful, Relationship, Goodbye, Good Morning

“Love betters what is best”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

“Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”

Clive Barker book The Thief of Always

Source: The Thief of Always

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Truth, Beauty, Knowledge

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

Women, Men

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder… the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

People, Smile, Parent, Personality

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Spy

Faith, Feeling, Understanding

“I love you," I whisper.
"And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Smile

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Life, Cooking

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

People, Childhood, Hurt

“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The monster to Robert Walton in Ch. 24
Frankenstein (1818)

Imagination, Fashion, Change, Heart

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Happiness, Heartbreaking

“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Pain

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Heart

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Variant: The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Source: How to Be Good