Quotes about love
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“You cannot love without intuition.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

Source: The Rose Tattoo

“Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Personality

“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Lovers

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Hope, Feeling

“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”

Daniel Pennac (1944) French author

Source: Better than Life

Time, Reading

“It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Truth

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“I love your name. I love the sound of it”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

For Boyfriend

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Life, Money, People, Angels

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Variant: When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Source: The Fiery Cross

Time, Parting

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

William Godwin (1756–1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist

Reading

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Context: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. … Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

Justice, Peaceful

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding

Life, Passion, Parting

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

Men

“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer

Life, Change

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

“Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Angels Fall

Life, Justice

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Soul, Singing

“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”

Irvine Welsh book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Source: Ecstasy

People, Hurt

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
Source: The Book Thief

Children

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Thinking

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 11

Happiness, Feeling, Heart, Joy

“I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Family, Hope, Home, Cooking

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

Jeannette Walls (1960) American writer and journalist

“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Time

“I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Women

“If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Time

“Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

Life

“I loveI have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye ’til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi’ the world.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

World, Time

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Life

“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Notorious Pleasures

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

Kate DiCamillo (1964) American children's writer

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)

Art

“She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon… and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Health, Jealousy, Beauty, Help

“Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Sun

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Life, Heart

“You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Life, Future

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Variant: When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Source: Brida

Understanding, Thinking, Learning

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

Fear, Way, Soul

“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”

James Dickey (1923–1997) American writer

God, Nature, Universe

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

Luanne Rice (1955) American author

Source: Follow the Stars Home

Feeling, Thinking

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

People

“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Bride Quartet Boxed Set

Learning

“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Variant: No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you." - Dimitri
Source: Vampire Academy

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

Life, Way

“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Source: Hiss of Death

Happiness

“To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Tree, Learning

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Death, Soul, Appearance

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Life, Passion, Time, Madness

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Happiness, Sun

“Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.”
“I love you?”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Suffering, Joy

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”

Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen

Source: The Snow Queen

Hate, Universe, Chance, Indifference

“Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Happiness, Sadness

“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Laughter

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: Mad Love

Relationship, Cute, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Friendship

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures;
they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

Dogs, Thinking

“One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

World, School, Beauty

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

World

“You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Girl

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

People, Mathematics

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: The Seventh Seal

Faith, Appearance

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams, Imagination

“That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. They say I love nothing but money and the Presbyterian Church and that is why I never married.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, pp. 214-215 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

Money, People

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Strong

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Sweet Surrender

Men, Beauty

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

World

“No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.”

Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer

Source: My Fantoms

Dead

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

People, Parting, Hurt

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Feeling, Personality

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Travel, Hell

“Cannibals need love too.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

“The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 74, p. 232
Context: Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

God, Light, Heart

“If there is God, I thought… Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh…" "Tatiasha… isn't it nice to know there is a God?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

God, Making love, Girl