Quotes about love
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“It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.”

Source: We Were Liars

“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Beauty, Flying

“True love cannot die.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Feeling, Heart

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

"being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)

Truth, Fear, Hope, Star

“There is always something new to learn about the person you love.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Learning, Personality

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”

Melissa Bank book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People

“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

Fish, Water, Sea

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“love is what moves the world, I've always thought… it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… bring them low… and make them crawl…”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Women, Men, World

“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice

Feeling, Relationship, Romantic, Wedding

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Pain, Hate, War, World

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Children

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Pleasure, Truth, Hope, Thinking

“The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Way, Universe

“Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Last Chance Saloon

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Life, Way

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Beauty, Relationship, Anniversary

“No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"

Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Girl

“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Madness

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

Personality

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 3

People, Beauty, Change

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

Euripidés Orestes

Source: Orestes (408 BC), l. 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith

Way, Help, love

“I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Hate, Passion

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Painting

“And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Joy

“I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Girl

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Life, Beauty, Personality

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Hate, Feeling

“Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: The Bride and the Beast

God, Fools

“All love is sweet, given or received…”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

“Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”

“I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Thinking, Chance

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Source: Les Misérables

Life, Heart Touching, Romantic, Wedding