Quotes about love
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“You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

People, Fear

“To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

God

“This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said.
"I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Stupidity

“It's such a liability to love another person.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Personality

“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: True Love

Life

“I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

Truth, Fear, Light, Joy

“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave”

James Salter (1925–2015) American novelist and short-story writer

Source: Dusk and Other Stories

Women, Men

“You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“Cats are cats… the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author

Source: The Cat Who Saw Stars

Hate, World, Peace, Intelligence

“Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Money, Sex, Soul, Revenge

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Small Bachelor

Source: The Small Bachelor

Life, Marriage

“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it… It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

Hate

“I am not afraid of tomorrow
for I have seen yesterday
and I love today”

William Allen White (1868–1944) American newspaper editor and politician

Inspirational

“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

Weather

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Fate, Teachers

“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski

Hate, People, Thinking

“One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Fashion, Dead

“Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Understanding

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

People, Suffering

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

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

Peaceful, Cute, Romantic, For Her

“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Mountain

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

Hope

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Source: Riding Shotgun

“We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Leaving Home‎ (1987), p. 184

Christmas, Christmas

“Knowing that you love me is not a source of amusement.” Sebastian realized that his hands were shaking with the force of the emotion that was pouring through him. “It is my salvation”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Dangerous

“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Religion, Beauty, Understanding

“You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

“Next time I fall in love it's going to be with someone who isn't an expert in fibbing."
"You're in love with me?"
"You didn't know that?"
"I did, but it's nice to hear."
"Scares the hell out of me.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Smokin' Seventeen

Hell, Time

“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

LOVE (1972)

Hope, Joy

“Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

People

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Imagination

“It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

Fear, Courage

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

Death, Soul, Hell, Strong

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape.”

Lee Maracle (1950) Canadian writer

Source: I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism

Sex

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Variant: Sometimes [... ] real love is silent as well as blind.
Source: The Stand

“Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.”

Charles Darwin book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 105 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=118&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Descent of Man (1871)

“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Support

“Death is sometimes kinder than Love.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Death

“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

World, Reality, Learning

“Love can conquer everything but reality.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Variant: Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.
Source: Lover Unleashed

Reality

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer

Source: Selected Poems

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

Dreams, Silence, Time, Forgetting

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Literature

“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Thinking, Heart

“Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

World

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Hope

“All love is unrequited. All of it.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

“If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.”

Dean Koontz book Seize the Night

Source: Seize the Night

Friendship, People

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”

Meg Cabot book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

Time, Drawing

“She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.”

Daniel Handler book The Basic Eight

Source: The Basic Eight

Boy

“Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Pain, Time

“The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.”

Marion Woodman (1928–2018) Canadian writer

“When they come… they come at what you love.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.”

Albert Ellis (1913–2007) American psychologist

Personality

“Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Source: Love Comes Softly

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

Parting

“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

Marguerite Duras book The Malady of Death

Source: The Malady of Death

Way, Night

“Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Girl

“Love means knowing when to let go.”

Tony Parsons book Man and Boy

Source: Man and Boy

“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case… I love you.”

Eileen Wilks (1952) fiction writer

Source: On the Prowl

Thinking

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Life

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

World

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Life

“most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Wilson Lewis, Epilogue, p. 262-263
Variant: But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)
Context: The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.

People, Disappointment, Learning