Quotes about love
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“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”

Source: Anna Karenina

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Death, Sleep, Loss, Time

“Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Self-Help

Light, Water, Housing

“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office (1971)

Women, Suffering, Clothes

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, God, Lovers, Problem

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Faith, Christ

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Chance

“I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.
Love, Dimitri”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

World

“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Life, Men

“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Affliction, Suffering

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Light

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Way, Learning, Heart

“Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Gates of Paradise

Question

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Way, Thinking, Change

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Death, Personality

“Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

Variant: Your face is my heart
Source: Drums of Autumn

Soul, Heart

“Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Pain, Peace, Joy, Personality

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

History, Suffering

“I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.”

Jude Watson book What I Saw and How I Lied

Source: What I Saw and How I Lied

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
Context: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.

Life, Beauty, Art, Wine

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Disease, Boy

“Is love a fancy or a feeling…. or a Ferrars?”

Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer

Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Feeling

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Truth

“Where there is love, there is courage
Where there is courage, there is peace
Where there is peace, there is God
And when you have God, you have everything.”

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Variant: Where there is love there is courage,
where there is courage there is peace,
where there is peace there is God.
And when you have God, you have everything.
Source: A Fatal Grace

God, Peace, Courage

“There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing

God, Way

“I love you, I'll never stop.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Love fades. Mine has.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: I've given up on you... Love fades. Mine has.
Source: Spirit Bound

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Life, Happiness, Idea, Happy

“Thank you… for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

Life, Soul, For Him, For Boyfriend

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

Esther Perel (1958) Belgian Psychotherapist and Author

Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

Life, Marriage, Time

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Life, Death

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Pain, Boy, Heart

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

Fight, Anger

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Parent, Heart Touching, For Parents

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Personality

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Hannah Coulter

Time

“Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance."
Percy: "Seriously?"
Frank: "And I love ice cream too…”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

People, Truth

“Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.”

Deanna Raybourn (1968) American writer

Source: Silent in the Sanctuary

Decision

“We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Way

“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Variant: It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Source: Nausea (1938)
Context: I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

Thinking