Quotes about love
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“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Age, Wine

“The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Family Happiness

Variant: I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.
Source: Family Happiness

Life, Chance

“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Girl, Idea

“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Women, Men, Thinking, Forgetting

“Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Men, Pain, Beauty, Heart

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Life

“God loves you just the way you are, but Heto leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

God, Way

“The mind I love must have wild places.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

“Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all…”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Smile

“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.”

Herman Wouk book The Winds of War

Source: The Winds of War

War, Fear, Peace

“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

for the lack of it.' Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.51
Source: Giovanni's Room (1956)

People

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Disappointment, Reality

“Love covers a multitude of sins…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.”

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

Life

“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Truth

“Love your rage, not your cage.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Rage

“Love is not to be proven or measured… It exists, and that is enough.”

Jorge Amado (1912–2001) Brazilian writer

Source: Gabriela, Clavo y Canela

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

Men, People

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

Fools, Thinking

“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Thinking, Light, Time

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

People, Way

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Thinking

“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Life

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.”

Bram Stoker book The Jewel of Seven Stars

Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars

Light, Selfishness

“Annabeth finished her note and folded the napkin. On the outside, she wrote: Connor, Give this to Rachel. Not a prank. Don’t be a moron. Love, Annabeth”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Dead

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) English composer, conductor, and pianist

Pain, Beauty, Music, Disappointment

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

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

Intelligence, Drink

“A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Lie, Communication

“whatever you love, that is your weakness”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Happiness, Suffering, Help, Joy

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Help, Personality, Despair

“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”

Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author

Source: House at the Corner

Life

“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Hope, Falseness

“Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Time

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

Children, People, Books, World

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Way, Hurt

“Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, People, Evil, Help

“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”

Daphne Kalotay American writer

Source: Russian Winter

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

World, Heart Touching, Mother's Day, For Parents

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: Very Good, Jeeves!

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Way, Understanding, Loss, Parting

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

Geoffrey Wolff (1937) American writer

Learning

“We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.”

Kathryn Harrison book The Kiss

Source: The Kiss

Children, Thinking, Parent

“Love is not necessary for sex.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

Sex

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Life, Dreams, Country

“Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

People, Thinking

“Don't strive for love, be it.”

Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 23

Food, Sincerity, Funny

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Nature

“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Beauty

“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Marriage, Making love, Dreams, Dead

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Wise

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Life, Star, Chance, Beauty

“The dreamer in her
Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dreamer in me
Fell in love with her and I knew it”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

“But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs
At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

People, Personality

“Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Girl, Boy

“No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

A comment to T. H. Morgan, as recalled by Henry Borsook. Einstein was visiting Cal Tech where Morgan and Borsook worked, and Morgan explained to Einstein that he was trying to bring physics and chemistry to bear on the problems of biology, to which Einstein gave this response. Borsook's recollection was published in Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins (1956), p. 284 http://books.google.com/books?id=H4QjXb4gnEIC&q=%22so+important+a+biological%22#search_anchor, as part of a piece titled "Informal remarks 'by way of a summary'". Context for this story is also given in The Molecular Vision of Life by Lily E. Kay (1993), p. 95 http://books.google.com/books?id=vEHeNI2a8OEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications