Quotes about love
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“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Variant: We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Way, Universe

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement… To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Support, Heart

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”

Meg Cabot book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Life, Books

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Money, People, Motivational, Deep

“Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.”

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) British historical romance and detective fiction novelist

Source: Behold, Here's Poison

Clothes

“You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Sadness, Heart

“Love takes your choices away.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I think you run out of 'I love yous”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Thinking

“He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly.

"I'm not crazy," I whispered.

"I know."

Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.

And I kind of loved him for it.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless.

Like I used to be.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

World, Feeling, Girl, Thinking

“We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Cheating at Solitaire

Thinking

“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”

Judith Butler (1956) American philosopher and gender theorist

Feeling, History

“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Beauty and Sadness

Source: Beauty and Sadness

“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Books, Religion, Literature, Kiss

“Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Life, Joy

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

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

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Beauty, Star, Distant

“My love is upon you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

“If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.”

Don DeLillo book The Names

Source: The Names (1982), Ch. 4

Literature, Dead

“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Variant: But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Source: East of Eden

God, Soul, Universe

“In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Death, Kiss, Dead

“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Money, Dogs

“Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents

Pain, Fear, Rage, Change

“Silver eyes met hers and locked. “I didn’t like Dani.”
“At least you’re consistent,” she said coolly.
His silver eyes were ice. “I loved her.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Feverborn

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved

Learning, Personality, Perfection, Relationship

“I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Imagination, Sleep, Heart

“Love isn't rational, it's instinctive”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

Source: Deadly Little Secret

“You love me," she said. "That's enough. We love each other."

"Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Smile

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

Amanda Stevens (1977)

Source: The Kingdom

People, World

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

People

“I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors,
And now the whole world is here for me to see,
Now I'm searching for my love to be.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Room Full Of Mirrors
Song lyrics, Rainbow Bridge (1971)
Context: I used to live in a room full of mirrors,
All I could see was me.
Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors,
And now the whole world is here for me to see,
Now I'm searching for my love to be.

World, Search

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: No." Magnus strode toward him. "I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Source: City of Glass

Way

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) writer

Lovers

“" he said. "I love you. Always.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Girl, Time

“know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Memory

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Joy, Personality

“Shut up, Nick. (Talon)
'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.’ Love you too, Celt. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Hate

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Way, Behavior

“Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

People, Way, Feeling, Reading

“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist (1998)
Context: They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

“Disappear, she says. I love that word.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) Australian writer

Source: The Solitary Summer

Books

“I love it when you're demented like this.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

People, Secret, Time

“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”

Shirley Hazzard book The Transit of Venus

Source: The Transit of Venus

Hurt

“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: Do the Work

Hope, Passion

“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Way, Time

“You are loved. If so, what else matters?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“They minute people fall in love they become liars.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

People

“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”

Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993) English novelist

Source: The Shadow of the Lynx

Learning, Passion

“Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

God, Cars, Dance

“How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?”

Julius Lester (1939–2018) American author

Source: The Autobiography of God

Hurt

“.. it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world… It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

World

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

Life

“It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“I'm not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Pain, Thinking, Betrayal, Hurt

“I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Way

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”

Alexander McCall Smith book Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Source: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

People, Lie

“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Feeling, Success

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity…”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

God, Effort, Light, Joy

“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Wine

“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Source: Memoria de mis putas tristes

Night

“But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love?”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

Knowledge, Heart, Wise, love

“Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Love on the Lifts

Life

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”

Elizabeth Bowen book A World of Love

Source: A World of Love

Valentine's Day

“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) British novelist and poet

Source: Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Dreams, Night, Good Night

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Loss, Time, Cheating

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

World, Hope, Way

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

People

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Variant: Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Pain, Feeling, Joy

“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Sunflower

“You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them.

-Drustan to Gwen”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Kiss of the Highlander

Men