“mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Quotes about love page 65
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Night Road
“God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.”
Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?
Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?
“I can tell you love him. (Syn)
Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of the Night
“If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
James Joyce book Dubliners
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”
Sylvia Plath book The Colossus and Other Poems
Source: The Colossus and Other Poems
“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian
Source: In November
“I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.”
Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
Source: Chicago: City on the Make (1951), Chapter 2, ""Are you a Christian?""
Context: [About Chicago:] It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.”
David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Grogan (1958) American journalist
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Waking Up With the Duke
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Selected Poems
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Hare Krishna, Peace and Love”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of Shadows
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
Source: Testimony
“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
David Deida (1958) American writer
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
The Triple Fool, stanza 1
Source: The Complete English Poems
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
“That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”
James M. Cain (1892–1977) Novelist, short story writer, journalist
“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: My Story
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles