Quotes about love
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“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

World, Tree, Perfection, Night

“Darling" she said with a small laugh "Love doesn’t have anything to do with this."

"It has very thing to do with it!" I exclaimed.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”

Joyce Carol Oates Little Bird of Heaven (1st edition)

Source: Little Bird of Heaven

Happiness, Spring

“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

“there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Variant: Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.

Money, Feeling, Sense, Cooking

“… the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something… or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Hate, Way, Feeling

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Ruthless

Guy

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Understanding, Thinking, Learning

“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1938) American historian

Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Happiness, Understanding

“If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

Pain, Pleasure, Flying

“Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

Thinking

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Coming Up for Air

Time, Waiting

“Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;
Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Problem, Freedom

“Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

Lie, Soul, Heart

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Despair

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Forgiveness

“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

People

“What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.”

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

Source: What I Know For Sure

Reading

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Books, Learning

“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems

People

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Dreams, Angels, Sleep, Madness

“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE

i don't know
if I will
ever understand
this Ache.
Perhaps it is
simpley and completely
Love and

what

HAPPENS.
at the end.

Loss

November 17, early morning”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

Understanding, Loss

“To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.”

Sidney Sheldon book Bloodline

Source: Bloodline

Dreams

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: First Comes Marriage

Way, Feeling, Suffering

“I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Hope, Heart

“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Question

“Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Girl

“Love is the only engine of survival”

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

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Truth, Perfection

“Darkness… When everything that you know and love… is taken from you so harshly… all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge… and no one can save you.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Revenge, Thinking, Anger, Sad

“Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Peace

“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Money, People, Dance, Hurt

“Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

People

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Happiness, Feeling

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Pain

“There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Soul, Heart

“Till I loved I never liked enough.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Variant: Till I loved I never lived.

“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”

Andrew Solomon book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Source: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

People, Drawing

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Bird, Fish

“You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?" - Gin Ichimaru awww”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

People, Cry

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Way, Feeling, Suffering

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Clive Barker book Absolute Midnight

Source: Absolute Midnight

Death, Way, Despair

“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Housing

“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Money

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Hurt

“… love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.”

Robert Musil (1880–1942) Austrian writer

Source: The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

People

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Faith, Feeling, Despair

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Grass

“… so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Imagination, Time

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

Anne Enright The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

People

“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Source: Safe House

World, Cats, Time, Animals

“Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

Summations, Chapter 44
Source: Revelations of Divine Love
Context: Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.
Context: Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.
In which marvelling he seeth his God, his Lord, his Maker so high, so great, and so good, in comparison with him that is made, that scarcely the creature seemeth ought to the self. But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love, in which God endlessly keepeth him.

Wisdom, God, Truth

“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Light, Cute, Wedding, love

“Love you,” Maya says. “Yes, she keeps saying that,” A. J. says. “I warned her about giving love that hasn’t yet been earned, but honestly, I think it’s the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, you know?”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Thinking

“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Heart

“I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.”

Gary Chapman

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

Feeling

“I love Canada… It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

People, Intelligence, Sense, Country

“Those who cannot love do not understand it”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Understanding

“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Kiss, Tree

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

God, Time

“I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't."

"That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

Hate, People

“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”

Meg Cabot book Teen Idol

Source: Teen Idol

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books, Boy

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Personality

“She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?"
"Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Angels

“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Fear, Art

“There's no love without pain.”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

Pain

“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.

Deep, Friendship, Relationship, For Friend

“We love our lovin'…. but not like we love our freedom.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

Freedom

“Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Death, Guy

“I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.”

Julie Kenner American writer

Source: California Demon

“Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Jenna Starborn

Heart

“Love, I find, is like singing.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Singing

“Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

Soul, Change

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

“Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Shadows

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Time, Cry