Quotes about love
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“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Source: The Garden of Eden

“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Youth

“Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Boy, Thinking, Hurt

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”

Helder Camara (1909–1999) Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife

Source: Spiral Of Violence

Men, World

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple (1982)

Flowers, Tree, Singing, Dance

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Hate, Thinking

“If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance.”

Seamus Heaney District and Circle

Source: District and Circle

“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Variant: You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
Source: This Lullaby

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

Courage, Strong

“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Variant: Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
Source: Parting words of the Wild Things to Max in Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

“Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”
“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Sister

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

Life, Hope, Feeling

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

Tree

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.”

Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

Pain, Secret, Suffering, Learning

“Range after range of mountains.
Year after year after year.
I am still in love.”

Gary Snyder (1930) American poet

Mountain

“Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily… Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Source: Sappho's Leap

“Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

James Fenimore Cooper book The Last of the Mohicans

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 18

History

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Personality

“The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Death, Heart, Housing

“Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

Glen Duncan book I, Lucifer

Source: I, Lucifer

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

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

Hope, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Evil, Fight

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher

"The Sublime and the Good", in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.
Source: Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

Art, Reality

“Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Passion

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Thoughts of Prince Andrew Bk XII, Ch. 16
Variant: All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
Context: Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

“… his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Nature, Forgetting

“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

Tony Kushner The Illusion

Source: The Illusion

World

“Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Soul, Rage, Passion

“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.”

Enid Blyton book Five Go Off in a Caravan

Source: Five Go Off in a Caravan

Age, Sister, Summer

“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life

“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“I love you."
Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Life

“Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Beauty, Flowers

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Wedding, For Her, For Him, For Boyfriend

“Ah men,
why do you want
all this attention?
I can write poems for myself, make
love to a doorknob if absolutely
necessary. What do you have to offer me
I can't find otherwise
except humiliation? Which I no longer
need.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Men, Making love

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Happiness, Problem

“… there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: True Love

Women

“Love and ever more love
is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

Problem

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables

Shoe, Soul, Star, Water

“I know you love me. The question is, how much?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Question

“Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

Roberto Bolaño book Amulet

Source: Amulet

“Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Source: On the Pleasure of Hating

Indifference

“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”

Peter Carey (1943) Australian novelist

Source: Collected Stories

People

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

Emmet Fox (1886–1951) American New Thought writer

World, Personality

“Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn’t know how to. He thinks he’s a nice boy, that’s the worst part.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Boy, Thinking, Parting

“Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Life Among the Lutherans

People, Light, Heart

“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

World, Hope

“I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle.

-Heath Champion”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Match Me If You Can

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Fate, Faith, Thinking

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Passion

“This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest… She was free, for love liberates.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Fifth Mountain Intl

Feeling, Freedom, Heart

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Works and Days - generally misquoted as "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Men, Science

“The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Drawing, Personality

“I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Variant: I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl.
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

People, Feeling, Past

“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Fever

“And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Justice, Forgiveness

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Life, Chance

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Death, Birth

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

Julie Powell (1973) American blogger

Source: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Personality

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

Kiss

“You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Joy

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

Fear

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Truth, Light, Personality, Perfection

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Hope

“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”

Arthur Nersesian (1958) American writer

Source: Manhattan Loverboy

Home, Light

“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Impossible

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them”

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Women, Men, Time, Heart

“Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Hope

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

Joan Didion book Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Betrayal, Forgetting

“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Life, Beauty, Tear, Laughter

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Friendship, Dependency

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Hate

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Sun, Parting, Sea

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

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

World, Making love, Joy

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Soul, Understanding, Thinking, Time

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

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

Law, Thinking

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Kiss

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Source: "Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)
Context: If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

God