Quotes about love
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“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Source: The Death of the Heart

Women, Feeling

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but…"
His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure.
He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Life, Feeling, Time

“Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“… the moron who thought love was forever.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

God

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul…”

Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

Soul, Game

“The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering
while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

God, Pain, Suffering, Distant

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

People, Hurt

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

People, Learning, Time

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Suffering

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Source: Geek Love

Truth, Nature

“Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

Water, Passion

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

Business, Nature

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Source: Riding Shotgun

Learning, Heart, Hurt

“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Selfishness

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient

Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

Dreams

“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisibly—
Oh, was no deny.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Never Seek to Tell
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

Fear, Travel, Heart

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“It's just programming"
"No. It's because I love him”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

“I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Context: I swept the marble chambers,
But you sent me down below.
You kept me from believing
Until you let me know:
That I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.

“No amount of promises can guarantee love”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Love In A Blue Time

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

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

“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

God, Religion

“You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like… slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Drink

“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings"
-Tessa gray”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

Feeling

“He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

From Are You the One for Me? (1992)

Time, Personality

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

People

“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”

Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist

World

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Death

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Soul

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Time, Personality

“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

War, Courage

“I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Star, Lovers, Parting

“I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Hate

“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People

“You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Variant: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach
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.
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.

Soul, Cute, Romantic, Wedding

“Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Quotes

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Marriage

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Living Loving and Learning

Hate, Feeling, Strong

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to bein all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Source: The Fire Next Time

Life, Thinking, Effort

“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Variant: The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.

Learning

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Friendship, Thinking

“I wish our love was right now.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Perfection

“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”

Christopher Moore book Coyote Blue

Source: Coyote Blue

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'

Uh… you know. Pretty good.'

Have you said the L-Word yet?'

The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh… No. The other L-Word.'

?'

Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor

Source: To Understand Each Other

Feeling, Understanding

“Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Girl

“she told him.
"I love you, Kait. From the very beginning.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Source: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

Relationship, Cute, Romantic, Birthday

“The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Country

“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Like Life

“He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

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Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Fear, Learning, For Him

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Life, Men

“Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Hostility

“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

Question

“There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Kiss

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Girl

“This is Ian. He's no' usually speechless. Or so well dressed."
-Conner
I shouldna wear my best clothes to meet an angel from heaven?"
-Ian
"You look very nice, I love your shirt."
-Marielle
"Thank you"
-Ian
"I have a shirt like that, too."
-Conner”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Vampire Mine

Angels, Clothes

“Lost love is still love.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Variant: if your love is only a will to possess, its not love
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

World, Water, Parting

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“There’s a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn’t mean you are special—it means he is troubled.”

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Life, Women, Learning

“It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

“I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Hurt

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer

Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Life, Wedding