Quotes about love
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“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Face the Fire

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Dependency

“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

Ann Brashares book 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Source: 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Way

“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Variant: Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

Beauty, Time

“Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Variant: Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
Source: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”

William Carlos Williams book Spring and All

Source: Spring and All

Waiting

“Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Fear, Motivation

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Fear, Hope, Memory, Loss

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Truth, Lie, Spring, Memory

“I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.”

Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Happiness

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”

Brian Moore (1962) British rugby player, referee, commentator

Life, Wise

“What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Life, Men

“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

Life

“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Marriage, People, Way

“There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.”

Bill Condon (1955) American film director

Books, World, Beauty

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Hate

“I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Thinking

“Deep down inside, my heart knew the score.
And I know that Haven was wrong.
It's not always a case of one loving more than the other.
When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally.
Differently - but still equal.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Night Star

People, Heart

“God loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you just as you are.”

George Foster

Amazing Peace-PI

God

“I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Silence

“Power without guilt, love without doubt….”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Life, Death, Fight, Loneliness

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Evil, Help

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”

Margaret Landon (1903–1993) writer, missionary

Pain

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Heart

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Faith, Confidence, Depressing

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Stupidity, Selfishness

“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Scandalous Desires

Tear, Heart

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Fear

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Patience

“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

“This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Variant: This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me.

- Tristan Carruthers
Source: Kissed by an Angel

Game

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

Céline Dion (1968) Canadian singer

Life, Time

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.”

Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer

Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Dogs, Way, Learning

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Feeling

“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Question, Kiss

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Fear, Dreams, Question

“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

God, Country

“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Life, Tear, Season

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

People

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Sense

“Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

Weather

“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944 "Debate on the Address" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/nov/29/debate-on-the-address#column_31. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Context: A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward … Let us have no fear of the future.

“One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Children, Heart