Quotes about love
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“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”

Michel Houellebecq book Atomised

Source: The Elementary Particles

Evil

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.”

Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

Soul

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Happiness, Stupidity, Feeling

“I'm here, my love,"…”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Death

“Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren’t passionate, romantic, can’t-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Passion, Heart

“Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander.
Father.”

Gail Carson Levine Fairest

Source: Fairest

Fear, Future, Daughters

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

Gene Wolfe book There Are Doors

Source: There Are Doors

Lovers

“He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“Time Is…
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Time Is
Undated
Source: Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)

Fear, Time, Waiting, Deep

“Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

People, Fear

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Variant: The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Source: The Way of Chuang Tzu

Relationship, For Wife

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”

Giles Andreae (1966) British artist, poet

Music, Imagination

“I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Understanding

“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: Our love is like the wind... I cant see it, but I sure can feel it.
Source: A Walk to Remember

Feeling

“Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: The Darkest Hour

Feeling

“I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.”

Susan Minot (1956) American author and screenwriter

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27

Happiness

“They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Dreams

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

World, Feeling, Personality

“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Hope, Sex

“She had a way of pouring everything of herself into what she did. When she fought, she was the blade. When she loved, she was the kiss. In that regard, she was far more … human than any I have known.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Shadows of Self

Way, Kiss

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

Literature, Suffering

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Life, Water

“Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

God

“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: This isn't about music. This is about winning.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Source: Fight Club
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

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

Dreams

“I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

Sense

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

People, Family, Communication

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Beauty, Soul, Nature, Personality

“Babies were dangerous…
they made you fall in love before you knew
what was happening.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Baby

“Without justice there can be no love.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Justice

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

People, Thinking, Reading

“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Something Blue

Friendship, Change

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Personality

“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

People

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

Life

“A blind man can see how much I love you”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

“The first one is always the hardest," he said.
"The first?"
"The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Courage, Cry, Courageous

“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Feeling

“It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Source: Goodnight, Beautiful

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Feeling, Sleep, Personality, Night

“are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love?”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Feeling, Search

“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

Orson Scott Card book Rebekah

Source: Rebekah

God

“I think part of me was born loving you.”

Shiloh Walker (1950) American writer

Thinking, Parting

“when I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Happiness, Sex, Guy, Feeling

“Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.”

Meg Rosoff (1956) American-British children's writer

Source: Jonathan Unleashed

Way, Tree, Grass, Time

“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth (2000)

People

“We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Nature, Heart

“Calvin: But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

God

“It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.”

John Steinbeck book The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Sadness, Smile

“But oh, Mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 12.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

Heart

“Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours.

-Phury's thoughts”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Variant: Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours.
Source: Lover Unbound

“Bombs are good. I love bombs."--Iggy”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

Time

“Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it."
"I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement.
"Men are pigs," Murphy said.
"Amen," said Molly.
Lea gave me a prim look and said, "I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Men, People, Age

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Life, Feeling

“love is the biggest con of all”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Truth, Feeling, Hurt, Perfection

“Love is the only future God offers.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

God, Future

“I love Humanity but I hate humans”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

A comment of Einstein's recalled by John Wheeler in Albert Einstein: His influence on physics, philosophy and politics edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1979), p. 202
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variant: I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

Hate

“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“… we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully…”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

Summations, Chapter 61
Source: Revelations of Divine Love
Context: If we never fell, we should not know how feeble and how wretched we are of our self, and also we should not fully know that marvellous love of our Maker. For we shall see verily in heaven, without end, that we have grievously sinned in this life, and notwithstanding this, we shall see that we were never hurt in His love, we were never the less of price in His sight. And by the assay of this falling we shall have an high, marvellous knowing of love in God, without end. For strong and marvellous is that love which may not, nor will not, be broken for trespass.

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Sleep