Quotes about love
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“Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

World, Peace, Heart

“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”

Mohsin Hamid book Exit West

Source: Exit West

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

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Life, Chance

“Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Variant: I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
Source: Blood Promise

Life

“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Pain

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Money, People, Alcohol, Effort

“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Life, Death, Money, Drink

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Parting, Personality

“I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”

Dan Simmons book Endymion

Source: Endymion

Time

“Kiss me now, love me now.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Kiss

“No rest without love,
no sleep without dreams of love-
be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines,
the final wish is love
-cannot be bitter, cannot deny,
cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Dreams, Angels, Sleep, Madness

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Time, Powerful

“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Happiness, World

“Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.”

Dan Brown book Digital Fortress

Source: Digital Fortress

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“Marry me. You'll learn to love me, I promise.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Sunrise Point

Learning

“only the defeated know LOVE.
because it is in the realm of love that we
fight our first battles - and generally lose……..”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Fight

“The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,—
And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!”

George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos

Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

Music, Soul, Light, Heart

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Bird, Fish

“I love everything about you that hurts.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Variant: I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.
Source: Closer

Hurt

“It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Dogs, Sense

“The final word is love.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.

MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”

Mina Loy (1882–1966) Futurist poet and actress

Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Way

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

God, Help

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander

First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

love

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.
This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

Time

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Life

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Life, Feeling

“I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Happiness, Sadness, Feeling, Flying

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

Passion

“Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love….”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Fear, Way, Passion

“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”

Caroline Paul (1963) American writer

Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

“Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Smile

“Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.”

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

Source: The Collected Poems

“You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“… when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

Learning

“Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

God, Music, Learning, Heart

“Yes, Jason Grace." Favonius arched an eyebrow. "I fell in love with a. Does that shock you?”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

God, People, Beauty

“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love"
[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Explosive Eighteen

Thinking, Grandma

“You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”

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

16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)

Life

“I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Life, Feeling, Imagination, Time

“Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Marriage

“I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Boy, Time

“What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Life

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Anniversary

“All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Time

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Jenna Starborn

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

Shmuley Boteach (1966) American Orthodox rabbi and writer

Hate, Relationship

“For awhile, I thought that was love.
-Gaara”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Life, Happiness, Effort, Suffering

“Dear God,
I give this time of quiet to You.
Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear
And deliver me to the inner place
Where all is peace and love.
Amen.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

God, Fear, Peace, Time

“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Life, People, Cry

“Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Search, Mountain

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer (1996)
Context: Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

World, Way, Boy, Hurt

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Singing, Dance

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Way

“I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Way, Imagination

“Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble

“There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

People, Way, Thinking

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

David Foster Wallace book Girl with Curious Hair

Source: Girl with Curious Hair

Silence

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Fear

“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Fear, Dead

“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

Music, Thinking

“Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Life

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Dead

“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

World, Heart

“Love me… I am not evil.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: The Season of Passage

Evil

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in "It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem" in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958) http://www.frostfriends.org/FFL/Periodicals/Interview-lewis.html <br class="br">1950s