Variant: There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
Source: Frankenstein
Quotes about love
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Bisco Hatori
(1975) Japanese manga artist
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 4
“Love can't be forced into existence,(…)It won't come simply because you will it to happen”
Judith McNaught
(1944) American writer
Source: Once and Always
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811–1863) novelist
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
Context: It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
Peeta Mellark, p. 253
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Noel Coward
(1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Source: Quote in Margaret McManus, "Noël Coward a 'Blithe Spirit' — in Sunny Jamaica", The Des Moines Register (January 8, 1956), Section: Iowa TV Magazine, p. 5
Brian W. Aldiss
(1925–2017) British science fiction author
Quoted in the Manchester Guardian (31 December 1977), and Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) https://web.archive.org/web/20000709051930/http://www.bartleby.com/63/90/4790.html edited by James B. Simpson; Says Who?: A Guide To The Quotations Of The Century (1988) by Jonathon Green, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=xUwOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CK0BEOgBMBk and The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=bs0J36MpieIC&pg=PA45&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22When%20childhood%20dies%2C%20its%20corpses%20are%20called%20adults%22&f=false
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin
(1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Wilhelm Reich
(1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst
Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”
Source: Small Great Things
“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
Leo Buscaglia
(1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.”
Rachel Hawthorne
(1950) American author
Source: Full Moon
“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”
Source: The Magic Toyshop
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Ella Enchanted
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
L.J. Smith
(1965) American author
Source: Dark Visions
“Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”
Variant: There's a fine line between love and hate. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
Source: A Place Called Here
“Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen”
Kim Harrison
(1966) Pseudonym
Source: The Hollows Insider
Gena Showalter
(1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.”
Brian P. Cleary
(1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
“Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.”
Kay Redfield Jamison
(1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.”
Lisa Kleypas
(1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”
Cinda Williams Chima
(1952) Novelist
Source: The Crimson Crown
“I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.”
Lisa Kleypas
(1964) American writer
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
Variant: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
Jodi Picoult
(1966) Author
Source: Leaving Time
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”
Phantastes (1858)
Variant: It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
Context: I knew now, that it is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, and not the being loved by each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad. This is possible in the realms of lofty Death.
“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
Source: The Amulet of Samarkand
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
Jo Walton
book
Among Others
Source: Among Others
“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
Mitch Albom
(1958) American author
Source: The Time Keeper
Elizabeth Hardwick
(1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
Ernesto Che Guevara
(1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Excerpts from the two paragraphs above have sometimes been quoted in abbreviated form: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
“At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.”
Julie Anne Peters
(1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.”
Cassandra Clare
(1973) American author
Source: The Evil We Love
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
Mitch Albom
(1958) American author
Source: The Time Keeper
“Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.”
Melina Marchetta
(1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
