Quotes about love
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“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Life, Truth, Learning

“I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.”
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Variant: I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.
Source: Blood Promise

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Happiness, People, Star, Time

“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Smile, Dreams, Lovers, Loneliness

“I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

People, Idea

“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Children

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Peace

“If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Food

“The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Books, Guy, Chance, Reading

“Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: Selected Poems

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Passion

“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”

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

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

God, Faith, Faith

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Parting

“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Are you in love Mr. Cross?
Irrevocably.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

“Love After Love
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.”

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright

Life, Heart

“Liberty and love
These two I must have.
For my love I’ll sacrifice
My life.
For liberty I’ll sacrifice
My love.”

Sándor Petöfi (1823–1849) Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Life

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Help

“But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

Pain, Change, Loneliness

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Usually when you’re in love, you’re miserable.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

World, Shoe

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

Beauty, Feeling, Intelligence

“I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

World, Parting

“Love is a contradiction.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.

Virgil book Eclogues

The Eclogues
Eclogues (37 BC)
Variant: Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!

Smile

“… there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Heart

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Life

“Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.”

George MacDonald book The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Source: The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Heart

“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

Idea, Time

“How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Family

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise

Money, Way, Learning

“To be interested in the changing seasons is… a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Spring, Change, Season

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Change, Gratitude

“Random Girl after a hookup: "Do you love me"
Tucker: "I don't understand the question.”

Tucker Max I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

The Tucker Max Stories
Source: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Context: Tucker: Are you married?
Girl: Yes.
Tucker: How good is the marriage?
Girl: Very good.
Tucker: So there is no chance of us hooking up?
Girl: No.
Tucker: Well, do you have any hot friends who aren't fucking prudes? Hey--where are you going? I was only kidding! I respect the sanctity of the monogamous relationship! WHORE!
Context: Tucker: Do you hate the World Bank?
Girl: Uhh, umm, well, I mean, yeah, I feel that...
Tucker: You don't hate the World Bank.
Girl: I don't?
Tucker: No. You're mad at your father. You just want daddy to hug you more.
Girl: What?
Tucker: You were a sociology major weren't you?
Girl: NO!
Tucker: What was your major?
Girl: [Pauses] Uhhh, English Literature.
Tucker: [Pause--to give her a look of contempt] Did your parents send you a bill for college? How are those Marxist Literary Critique classes working out for you? You work at Barnes and Noble don't you?
Girl: NO--I wor--
Tucker: Shouldn't you be blocking an intersection right now? How many anti-sweatshop petitions have you signed--EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE REEBOKS ON. Very-anti globalization to wear those with your animal tested Clinque make-up made in Nepal. Well, at least you're consistent in your shameless hypocrisy.
Girl: What a fascist piece of shi--
Tucker: You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.
Girl: [A mishmash of stammered half insults]
Tucker: Seriously--If I stuck my dick in your mouth would that shut you up?
Girl: Wha... YOU ARE SUCH AN ASSHOLE!
Tucker: HEY--Don't blame me for the wound in your crotch. [As I walk off] By the way, you owe us a rib.

Girl, Understanding, Question

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs

Source: Venus in Furs

Smile, Passion

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love”

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

“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Actually, you can be bad at something… but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Thinking

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Variant: It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Friendship, Thinking

“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye

“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Heaven to Betsy

Source: Heaven to Betsy

Memory

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Loss, Heart

“But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

Children

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Reality

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

“Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)

“You are joy, looking for a way to express.
It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager.
That's who you are.”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer

Way, Freedom, Joy

“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Thinking

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Variant: Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
Source: My Name Is Memory

“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Way, Time

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”

Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)

Time

“Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but… I promise you, the right man won't care.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Life, Feeling

“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

Howard Jacobson book The Finkler Question

Source: The Finkler Question

Knowledge, Personality

“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

Bruce D. Perry (1955) American psychiatrist

Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

Truth

“it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved”

Sharon Olds (1942) American poet

Source: Stag's Leap: Poems

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

Maxim 52, p. 259
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume III

Soul

“Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Personality

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

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

Source: My Story

World, Strong

“If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

War, Thinking, Time

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

World, Imagination

“Love is the only rational act.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“There is plenty of work for love to do.”

Alexander McCall Smith book Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Source: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Success

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Fate

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Way, Thinking, Heart, Forgetting

“I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Heart

“He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Thinking

“To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Life

“Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Black Dawn

People

“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

Beauty, Way, Feeling, Thinking

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice…
Or backyard love?”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Japanese Haiku

Cats, Fish

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

People

“… love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”

Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012) Feminist

Source: The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Context: I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Life, People, World, Hope

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer

Source: After You'd Gone

Personality

“Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Men

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

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

Time

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)

Money

“Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

God

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Jerk

“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.”

Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer

Source: Bluets

Color

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

People

“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

Feeling, Patience

“But you love her.”
Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he
said finally. “I had come to think I would
never love anyone, but I love her.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Thinking

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Dreams, Communication, Personality

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Leaving Home‎ (1987), p. 9
Context: Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Life, God, Forgiveness