Quotes about love
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“Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.”

Source: Voyager

“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Life, Sadness, Animals

“And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.

Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.

—from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: When He Was Wicked

Hope, Thinking

“I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

People, World

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Way

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Communication

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

People, World

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Fools, Hurt

“But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Girl

“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“To love is to undress our names.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory —
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Music, When Soft Voices Die http://www.readprint.com/work-1367/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems

Art, Music, Sense, Memory

“I shot up, now as angry and frusterated as him. I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over. i won't give up on you."
" I've given up on you,"he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: Rose. Please stop. Please stay away."
[... ]
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
Source: Spirit Bound

Feeling

“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“When I say,, I don't mean,. I don't mean,. I don't mean,.
I want us to go back down to that root.
I want you to be the one who loves me.
I want to be the one who loves you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Fools, Way, Nature, Thinking

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) American historian

Faith, Hope, Knowledge, Past

“He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Feeling, Time, Personality

“Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Feeling

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) American photographer

Aaron Sussman, cited in: The Amateur Photographer's Handbook, (1973), p. vi
Sussman, Aaron. The Amateur Photographer's Handbook. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Context: Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever, whether it be a face or a flower, a place or a thing, a day or a moment. The camera is a perfect companion. It makes no demands, imposes no obligations. It becomes your notebook and your reference library, your microscope and your telescope. It sees what you are too lazy or too careless to notice, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Way, Feeling

“Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Gifts

Men

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Source: Les Misérables

Books

“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Books, Sleep, Reading

“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book The Buried Giant

Source: The Buried Giant

God, Understanding, Parting

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

Angels, Daughters, For Father

“She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“I love the stars.
Because they can't say anything.
I love the stars.
Because they do not judge anyone.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Star

“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

"Love the Wild Swan" (1935)
Context: This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your... self?
At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Music

“But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could chose anyone in this world to love, it'd be you.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

World

“I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Wedding

“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”

John Steinbeck book To a God Unknown

Source: To a God Unknown

People, Strong, Time

“So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here… in my arms.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Thinking

“The Warrior of the Light is a believer.

Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Life, Light, Appearance, Change

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Sea

“If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

For Him, For Boyfriend

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Making love, Mood, Fight

“I love you John Tyree, and I'm going to hold you to the promise you once made me. If you come back, I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Heart

“The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.”

Benjamin Constant Adolphe

Source: Adolphe

Life, Question, Suffering, Heart

“We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck.
You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Desire

Source: Dark Desire

Making love

“Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

Variant: The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.

Thinking

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Art, Way, Understanding, Nature

“They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Judgmentally

Waiting

“I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

God, Light

“Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Success

“These are the days of bootleg love.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Flowers

“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Fear, Silence

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Source: The Complete Poems

Dreams, Spring, Flowers

“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

People, Nature

“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”

Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 38, Escape

Truth, Nature

“Love knows no right or wrong.
Love is. Only is.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Life

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

Richard Yates book Cold Spring Harbor

Source: Cold Spring Harbor

“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Lovers

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing...

Source: And Another Thing...

Life, Happiness, Universe, Reading

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

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

Source: My Story

Cry, Night

“I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.”

Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer

Source: Midnight

Thinking

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Books

“No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Family, Forgiveness, Perfection

“Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.”

Philip Yancey book The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

God, Suffering

“Today we love what tomorrow we hate,
today we seek what tomorrow we shun,
today we desire what tomorrow we fear,
nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Hate, Fear

“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Lie, Cry

“Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”

Fanny Fern (1811–1872) American writer

Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

Beauty

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Children, Way, Tree, Change

“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

“Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Hurt

“It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.”

Peter McWilliams (1949–2000) American author and civil liberties advocate

“Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love”

Erich Segal book The Class

Source: The Class

“… I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

Understanding, Parent, Daughters

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

Life, Way, Girl, Joy

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life, Men

“I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.”

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

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed

Source: The Light That Failed

Life, World

“Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Variant: Sometimes love isn't enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?
Source: Reflected in You

“May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Future

“There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“I loved when Bush came out and said, "We are losing the war against drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Just for Laughs Comedy Festival (1990)

War, People

“If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVII : Further Warnings; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell

Hate

“I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry…. But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Lost in Time

Dreams

“To love beauty is to see light.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Beauty, Light

“I had learned this lesson so many times
before. It was the great inner truth that
didn't require the support of logic. Every
time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.
I wondered how much of me would be left
after tomorrow.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Truth, Support, Learning, Time

“Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Books

“It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Christmas

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

Anne Rice Belinda

Source: Belinda

“I love you, you see… and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted……. Or not obviously”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

World, Fear, Way

“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”

“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

World, Beauty, Dreams

“When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

Heart, Dependency

“Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Truth

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
Elegies
Source: The Complete English Poems

Beauty

“And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

God

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

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

Last paragraph of section III of Antidotes for fear, page 122 (see link at top of the section)
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Life, Peaceful

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