Quotes about love
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Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”
Variant: obstinate, adj.
Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death”
Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: The Complete Poems
Context: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain —
To thy high requiem become a sod.
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“I love your silences, they are like mine.”
"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Source: Under a Glass Bell (1944)
Context: I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Variant: I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Source: Invisible Monsters
“And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.”
Source: Someone Like You
“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Variant: If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Source: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 21, pp. 317-318
Source: What Is the What
Context: I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
“You take my heart with you, my loving captor."
"Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.”
Source: Honor's Splendour
Source: Immortal Beloved
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: The Marriage Plot
“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”
Source: Entweder / Oder
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: City of Ashes
“Love hurts."
Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123”
Source: The Final Warning
“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
pg 10
Variant: Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”
Source: I Shall Not Be Moved
“I’m obsessed and addicted and ripped-down-raw in love with Jericho Barrons.”
Source: Burned
“Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.”
Variant: I was following you.' - Jace
'Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.' - Simon
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
Source: Imajica
Variant: I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back.
Source: Beastly
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Love is a lesson worth learning.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Source: Lost in a Good Book
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 32, Shadow in the Throes of Death
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“Love is not consolation, it is light.”
As quoted in Simone Weil (1954) by Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin, p. 47
“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 191
Variant: How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 9 : The Scroll Marked II, p. 59.
Context: Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness because it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness because it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards because they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles because they are my challenge.
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
“See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love.”
Revelations (1993)
Context: The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”
Source: Goliath
“Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other”
Source: Eternal Lover
