Quotes about love page 48
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Something to Tell You
“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Simone Weil book Gravity and Grace
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Source: Gravity and Grace
“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Offshore Pirate
Quoted, Short Stories
Source: The Offshore Pirate
“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”
Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist
Source: Princess in Training
“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Complete Short Stories
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Source: Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 38
“If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: Selected Poems
“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”
Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.”
Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer
Source: Cloaked
“Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) American literary critic
Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
“When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?”
Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory
Source: My Name Is Memory
“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness
Source: Daughters of Darkness
“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
“Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.”
Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound
Source: Lover Unbound
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”
Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.”
David Eddings book Castle of Wizardry
Source: Castle of Wizardry
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Nature of Jade
“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.”
Joyce Carol Oates book You Must Remember This
Source: You Must Remember This
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train
Miss Viner
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Context: I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Variant: Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.
Source: The Best of Me
“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”
Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides
Source: The Prince of Tides
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Helen to Arthur
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World.
Source: The Alchemist
“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)