Quotes about love
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“I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Life, Fear, Feeling, Sister

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”

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

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Hate

“Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist

Family

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Cars, Understanding, Singing, Heart

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.”

George S. McGovern (1922–2012) American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate

Country

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer

Jealousy

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Best Friends Forever

World

“He buried his face in my throat. “Love you.” Tears stung my eyes. He said the words so rarely. “Tell me again,” I begged, holding on to him. His mouth found mine. “I love you . . .”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Tear

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

Lisa Gardner (1956) American author

Source: Live to Tell

Hope, Thinking, Parent, Fight

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

Pain

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Hurt

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Happiness, Strong

“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness.

Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

Evil

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Thinking, Perfection

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

God, Girl, Idea, Personality

“At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?"
"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Fate's Edge

God

“She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once—because you could love them in different ways.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

People, Way

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Time

“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

People

“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: No Place to Run

Hope, Hell

“The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Sun

“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Life, Making love, Communication, Kiss

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

World, Forgetting

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

God

“Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Sleep, Water

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

Understanding, Perfection

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

Fools

“Love means never having to be apart”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

https://www.facebook.com/11777366210/posts/10159064721041211/?

Life, Forgiveness, Kiss, Heart Touching

“Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

Heart, Night

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: The Infernals

“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

People, Country

“Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Life

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Silence, Night

“The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

Sinclair Lewis book It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

People, Fear, Personality

“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Happiness

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

Reba McEntire (1955) American country music artist and actress

Chance

“Remember… life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

Life

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Hate

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12
1880s

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

People, Disappointment, Heart

“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

World, Thinking, Sad

“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Pain, Beauty, Girl, Thinking

“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Pain

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

Source: Heart's Blood

Memory, Time

“I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

“The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Unfair Godmother

Shoe, Time

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Soul, Perfection

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”

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

Variant: What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

People, Travel, Feeling

“I love you,” he said fiercely. “ ’Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You’ve always owned it. I didn’t give it to you. You took it from the very start.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Never Love a Highlander

Heart, Parting

“Do you know what I love? Life. And romantic love is a distraction that makes staying alive more difficult. " [Sabine]”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Life

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner
Source: Many Moons

Question, Funny, Cute, Valentine's Day

“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Feeling

“It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.”

Robin McKinley Deerskin

Source: Deerskin

Dogs

“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

People

“Love will heal
What language fails to know”

Eavan Boland (1944) Irish poet

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Star, Light, Appearance

“What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Girl, Moms

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

People, Hurt

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Once and Always

Happiness, Fools, Hell

“Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

People, Thinking

“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”

Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer

Heart, For Him, love

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Lovers

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Life, People, Learning

“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

People

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

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

Fate

“And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Sister

“Can you ever forgive me?
I already have.
How could you? I don't deserve it.
That's what makes it love.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Christmas List

Forgiveness

“I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach… I think I'm in love with you… Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.”

Jill Mansell (1957) British author

Source: To the Moon and Back

Way, Thinking

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Heart, Cry

“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Sea

“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Way, Home, Strong, Time

“Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

“I love you. You are my heart beating
outside of my chest.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Heart

“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

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

Hate

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Time

“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
Source: The Lost Hero

World, Motivation

“You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Truth, Imagination

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows

People, Fear, Feeling

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

People

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Money, Happiness, People, World

“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

Edith Pattou book East

Source: East

“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

Julian Barnes book Talking It Over

Source: Talking It Over

Sex

“He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Variant: He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

God, People, World

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

This passage contains some phrases King later used in "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967) which has a section below. 1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957) Variant: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Source: Mentioned in "Out of Osama's Death, a Fake Quotation Is Born" by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic (May 2011) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/, and widely distributed on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jmadly/status/65314784136011776 as a quote of King, after the death of Osama bin Laden, the first sentence is one written by Jessica Dovey http://i.imgur.com/cqtjw.jpg on her Facebook page, which became improperly combined by others with genuine statements of King, whom she quoted, and which occur in Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 5 : Loving your enemies, and in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62. For the full story see "Anatomy of a Fake Quotation" by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic (May 3, 2011) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/ and for the Facebook version of the quote see Did Martin Luther King, Jr. say that “I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy”? at skeptics.stackexchange.com http://skeptics.stackexchange.com. Context: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. Context: Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Context: I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Hate, Star, Night, Peaceful