Quotes about love
page 63

“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

Source: The Ministry of Fear

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Memory

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

Forgiveness, Heart

“My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write in my letter, I'm not longer consumed by my all-consuming love… My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”

Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Hate

“The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Hate, Health, Dependency

“Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.”

Meg Cabot book Being Nikki

Source: Being Nikki

Life, Boy

“What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf)
Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron)
I thought that was politics. (Wulf)
It’s both. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Imagination

“I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because…."

"Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“I know I’m not supposed to say this,” he said. “But I think I love you more than ever.”

I took his hand and tried not to think about how happy his words made me.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Happiness, Thinking

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Time, Wise, Inspirational, Friendship

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Beloved (1987)

Freedom

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

Source: Early Work, 1970-1979

Life, Dreams, Art

“And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate…”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Heart

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Smile

“We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: It Chooses You

Feeling, Time

“With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Heart

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

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

“But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: The Calling

Heart

“I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Hate, Flowers

“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey”

Diablo Cody book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Source: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

Preface
Source: Adonais (1821)

Death, Thinking, Winter

“Love, too, was just a question of time”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Question, Time

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

Orson Scott Card book Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

Children, Feeling, Decision, Learning

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Happiness, Feeling

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

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

Life, Marriage, Problem, Learning

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

Lori Wilde (1958) American writer

Source: High Stakes Seduction

“Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular.
Jugular.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.”

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

Source: Standup Comic

Sex

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”

Margaret Atwood book Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Feeling

“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) British composer

Pain, World, Change

“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.”

Terry McMillan book Getting to Happy

Source: Getting to Happy

People

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Hope

“Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"… is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.”

José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

“What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Beauty, Personality

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

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

Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marriage, Making love, Girl

“She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Perfect

Fear

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

“Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart.”

Sarah Kane book 4.48 Psychosis

Source: 4.48 Psychosis

Time, Heart, Despair

“I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Something Wonderful

Life, Season

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

Falseness

“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Source: The Complete Plays and Poems

Pleasure, Romantic, For Him, For Boyfriend

“In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

Happiness, Heart

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Life, Death, For Wife

“Dear me, how I love a library.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately…”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Home, Soul, Cats, For Mother

“and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

World, Dependency

“Do you love me?
What?
Do you?
I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
Maybe you shouldn't do either.
Maybe I'm the one who should decide!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Life, People, Change

“I love you," he finally whispered. She leaned forward and touched his face. "I know. And I love you, too.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye;

"I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Nymph King

God, Quotes

“If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Sense

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lovely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Life, Money, Dreams, Chance

“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

Business, Personality

“Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate’s dangerously elevated. That sound? I’m being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

Moms, Kiss, Heart

“We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Fear, Thinking, Heart

“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.”

Erich Segal book Doctors

Source: Doctors

Rage, Science

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

World, Music

“That's weak! You don't know what caring is… Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

Hell, Fight, Relationship

“Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Variant: ... because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“But I could love you, too, sister. If you’d let me.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Styxx

Sister

“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Hate, People, Reality

“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

Men, Parting

“In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire" said Shane.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Variant: Shane talking to Claire -

"In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire
Source: Lord of Misrule

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”

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

Source: The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry

World, Soul

“My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Beauty, Autumn, Thinking, Tree

“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Time

“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

Stupidity, World

“Freely we serve. Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Robert Walton in "Letter 2"
Source: Frankenstein (1818)

Men, Soul, Understanding, Sea

“You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Death, Parting

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”

Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia

Freedom

“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Hope, Hell, Season

“No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Dead

“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

People, Problem, Help

“I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”

Louise Penny book Still Life

Source: Still Life

Life, People, Problem, Thinking

“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book A Princess of Mars

Source: A Princess of Mars

Fools, Lovers, Suffering

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Knowledge, Change, Time

“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Way, Feeling, Thinking, Personality

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Heart

“the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Women

“By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

School, Way, Guy, Training

“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven

Lie

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