Quotes about love
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“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”

Mark Doty (1953) Novelist, memoirist

World, Thinking

“When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: City of Ashes; Clary Fray

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

Life, Way, Memory

“I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Rennie’s one true love. For Alex’s best friend.
It has to end here. Now.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: Fire with Fire

Boy, Heart, Personality

“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Feeling

“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

Life, Thinking

“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Girl

“I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Moms, Time

“Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.”

Tom Robbins B Is for Beer

Source: B Is for Beer

Chance

“could i have loved you better? maybe. if that's true, then i'm sorry. could i have loved you more? i don't think it's possible.”

Elizabeth Noble (1968) British novelist

Source: Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Thinking

“We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Truth

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Hate, Smile

“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!”

Georgette Heyer book Venetia

Source: Venetia

God, Madness

“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Dreams

“When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

God, Personality

“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: The Perfect Christmas

Money

“If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Fight, For Wife

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

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

War, Peace, Learning, Peaceful

“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Wisdom, God, Time, Heart

“It's lovely. I hate it.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Source: Wolf Queen

Hate

“There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Understanding

“Church of painful love - unfulfilled, unrequited & unattained”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Pain

“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Sex, Sense

“Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it…”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Happiness, Feeling

“Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”

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

“Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Books, Personality

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

"With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994) Variant: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

World

“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

From The More Boys I Meet from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]

Dogs, Boy

“Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

Dodie Smith (1896–1990) English novelist and playwright

Cats, Heart

“it's colder than hell (yes) but
the blankets are thin,
and the pulled-down shades
are as full of holes as love is.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Hell

“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

Heart

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Life, Laughter

“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.”

Gwen Cooper (1971) American novelist

Source: Homer's Odyssey

Children, Personality

“She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Again the Magic

Smile

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

People, Hell, Hurt

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

Hate, People, Parent, For Parents

“You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed."
I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Way, Sleep, Tea

“You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

Flowers

“Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.”

Ann Beattie (1947) Short story writer, novelist, professor

Source: Walks with Men

“The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”

Courtney Love book Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Source: Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Suicide

“Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Way, Feeling, Personality, love

“I didn't know how… deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: On Mystic Lake

Life, Heart

“Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.”

William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

Strong

“I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway)
I don’t want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

Food

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”

Charles Morgan (1894–1958) British writer

“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Life, Girl, Problem

“Love is what you've been through with somebody”

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

Deep, love

“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”

Frank E. Peretti (1951) American writer

“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Democracy

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

Marvin J. Ashton (1915–1994) Apostle of the LDS Church

Family, Disappointment, Time, Help

“Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.

Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Sleep, Heart

“Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty

Princess

“Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Chance

“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel…”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Girl, Boy, Childhood

“Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”

George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind

Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18

Heart, Dependency

“Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnSouled

Children

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Mama, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Context: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Learning

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”

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

Friendship, Happiness, Wealth, Friendship

“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

World, Thinking, For Her, For Him

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

Etgar Keret (1967) Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter

Source: The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

War, World

“Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“If Madonna loves me, then you will too.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

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

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

Source: A Life At Work: The Joy Of Discovering What You Were Born To Do

Perfection

“You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Nauti Dreams

Change

“You love me?"
He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Women, God

“How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”

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

Truth

“If time and space, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we.
So why, Love, should we ever pray
To live a century?
The butterfly that lives a day
Has lived eternity.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Feeling, Time, Sun

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Health, Grass

“Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Mountain, Question

“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes

Source: Tarzan of the Apes

Way

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Feeling, Change, Time

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Hate

“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…”

Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer

Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Soul

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Home, Girl, Lovers, Thinking

“I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.”

Jude Watson (1956) novelist

Source: Strings Attached

“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Beauty, Perfection

“When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

World

“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Friendship

“If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Until You

“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

Derek Jarman (1942–1994) British film director and artist

Source: Dancing Ledge

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Idea

“Love does not forget!”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

Forgetting

“You can love someone you mistrust.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Baby Proof

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on…”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Judy McAden, Chapter 26, p. 314
Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000)

World

“And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

“… Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Chicago: City on the Make

Heart

“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Beauty, Boy

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Life, Lovers, Personality, love

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher. "L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Albatros Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

Way

“To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Hope, Sex

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