“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Quotes about love page 46
“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”
James Patterson book Kiss the Girls
Source: Kiss the Girls
“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Mercy
Suzanne Enoch (1964) American writer
Source: Reforming a Rake
“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
Stephen King book The Stand
Source: The Stand
“He looked like the love thoughts of women.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“What do any of us really know about love?”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
On Regine Olsen (2 February 1839)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual. … it seems to me that I should have to possess the beauty of all girls in order to draw out a beauty equal to yours; that I should have to circumnavigate the world in order to find the place I lack and which the deepest mystery of my whole being points towards, and at the next moment you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it's good to be here.
“Love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel
Mary Renault book The Mask of Apollo
Source: The Mask of Apollo (1966)
“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
Jane Green (1968) British writer
Source: The Beach House
“where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“How swiftly you dismiss our love…”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Variant: Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.
Source: City of Bones
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Clary, pg. 444
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Variant: And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything ever has.
Source: City of Glass
“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Heart of the Sea
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Variant: That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015 <br class="br">From interviews and talks <br class="br">Source: Community And Growth
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”
Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”
Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe
Variant: The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over. Those two elements always go together.
Source: Nights in Rodanthe
“He will love only once - but it will be for always.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Paradise
Carolyn Keene book The Clue of the Tapping Heels
Source: The Clue of the Tapping Heels
“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
“Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.”
Daniel Handler book Adverbs
Source: Adverbs (2006), Immediately
“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Variant: He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
Source: The Last Song
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
Kay Ryan (1945) American poet
Variant: The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.
Source: Say Uncle
“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Mercy
Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1
“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Source: Black: The Birth of Evil
Michael Pollan book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Jessica Bird book Dark Lover
Source: Dark Lover
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 38.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Variant: And I love you," Kieran said. "You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.
Source: Lady Midnight
“Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
“I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Source: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor