Quotes about love page 53
“I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: The King
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: ..... love yourself.
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
“What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
“We are each the love of someone's life.”
Andrew Sean Greer book The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?”
C. Terry Warner American writer
Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist
Source: Houses of Stone
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"My Dream" in You Can't Get There from Here (1957)
“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”
Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven
Source: Safe Haven
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer
Source: Summer by the Sea
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”
Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
Koushun Takami book Battle Royale
Source: Battle Royale
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer
“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177
“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
Robert Crais (1953) Novelist, screenwriter
Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar
Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Variant: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Source: On the Road
“I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Home Front
“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”
Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior
Source: Flight Behavior
“Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.”
Steve Martin book Shopgirl
Source: Shopgirl
“It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.”
Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War
Source: A Drink Before the War
“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Always on My Mind
“Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.”
Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)
Source: Meditations in an Emergency
“And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.”
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Source: The Indigo Spell
“I am crying over the elusive nature of love.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive
“He looked at her
Something
Turned cancerous
He was in love.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: 1000 Ways to Die
“Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love”
Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer
Source: Silver Is for Secrets
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight
Mayor Gherkin, Chapter 8, p. 120
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Context: ... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
