Quotes about love
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“But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Wilson Lewis, Chapter 4, p. 63
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Understanding

“All I think of ever is that I love you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Thinking, Anniversary, For Wife

“Only the hopeless love God.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

God

“No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much…”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Memory

“Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

World

“Rache! Glad you're… Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

God, Sex, Night

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

People, World, Making love

“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”

Kurt Tucholský (1890–1935) German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer

Hate, World

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Learning, Personality, Heart Touching

“Dip him in the river who loves water.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Water

“Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

“Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Guy

“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”

Anita Shreve book The Pilot's Wife

Source: The Pilot's Wife

“Frey was the god of spring and summer! read the caption. He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility. His twin sister, Freya, the goddess of love, was very pretty! She had cats!”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

God, Spring, Cats, Sister

“In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness”

Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist

Marriage, Forgiveness

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

For Wife

“Love those you hate you.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Hate

“You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

Maya Angelou book Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

Star, Strong

“You should find him because he loves you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Time

“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

World, Thinking

“Why should I believe any of this?'
It happens that fast.
I say, because I think I like you.
Marla says, 'Not love?'
This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Thinking

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People

“I love you is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

“Do you like to eat things?
-I love eating. I list it as a hobby.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Feeling

“It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it!”

Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Nature

“[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)”

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

Source: Crooked Little Heart

Suffering

“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”

Katherine Paterson (1932) American children's writer born and mainly raised in China

“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.”

Margaret George (1943) American writer

Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

“I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

God, Justice

“Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

Business

“Victim fall in love with excuses”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

“Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Night Road

Pain, Learning

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Universe, Wise, Deep, Cute

“The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with. Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But…" She shrugged elegantly.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Hate

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

School

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Dreams, Heart, Goodbye

“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

On est heureux par soi-même quand on sait s'y prendre, avoir des goûts simples, un certain courage, une certaine abnégation, l'amour du travail et avant tout une bonne conscience.
Letter to Charles Poney, (16 November 1866), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 188; André Maurois (trans. Gerard Hopkins) Lélia: The Life of George Sand (New York: Harper, 1954) p. 418
Variant: One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
Source: Correspondance, 1812-1876, Volume 5

Happiness, Courage, Effort

“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Way, Feeling

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Again the Magic

Hate, Making love, Dreams, Night