Quotes about love
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“The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Travel, Drink, Sleep, Water

“Love is a better master than duty.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Midnight all Day

Personality

“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”

Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

Happiness, Peace, Wealth

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sadness, Thinking

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. <br class="br">Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Death, Dreams, Hope, Imagination

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Hate, Feeling

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi
Source: City of Bones

Hope, Girl

“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”

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

“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'
Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Home, Housing, Box

“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

Andrei Codrescu (1946) American writer

Source: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Nostalgia

“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Feeling

“Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
~Kyoya”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 17

Way, Horse

“Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Thinking

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Pain, Truth, Books, Color

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

Pleasure, Secret, Feeling, Tear

“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

Men, Thinking

“… we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

Source: Deadline

Life

“It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.”

Martin Cruz Smith (1942) American writer

People

“I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Evil

“Him that I love, I wish to be
Free —
Even from me.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

"Even—" (1966)

“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”

Connie Brockway (1954) American writer

Source: The Bridal Season

“You belong where you're loved.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

Way, Suffering

“I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!”

Lyn Gardner Theatre critic

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“Nykyrian gave him a feral grimace. But when he spoke, his soft, lilting tone belied his fierce expression. “Syn… what can I say? I love you, man. I can’t live without you. are the air I breathe.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Happiness, World

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life

“There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

Source: The Naming

Pain, Soul, Heart

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Lying

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet

Source: Canzoniere: Selected Poems

Tear, Memory

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.”

Helen Fisher (1947) Canadian anthropologist

Source: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Life

“Say it,” she said, and he said, “I love you. I’ll always love you. Forever. It’s a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.”

Jennifer Crusie book Welcome to Temptation

Source: Welcome to Temptation

Life

“Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Fight

“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Hell, Fraud, Personality

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Books, Way, Reading, Parting

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

Sam Harris book Free Will (book)

Source: Free Will

“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”

Gary Zukav (1942) American writer and revivalist

Forgiveness, Freedom

“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Source: The Bijak of Kabir

Death, World, Dreams

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

World

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

Variant: What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Food

“Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs (2006), Collectively

Water

“You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

World

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

Théophile Gautier book Mademoiselle de Maupin

Source: Mademoiselle de Maupin

Life, Heart, Gratitude

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Thinking

“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline”

Raymond E. Feist (1945) Novelist

Variant: Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Source: Magician: Apprentice

Friendship, Sea

“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”

Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Lovers

“He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Shoe, Imagination, Water

“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”

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

Children, Heart

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Life, Suffering

“We have to be able to criticize what we love,
Say what we have to say,
'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,
Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

What If No One's Watching
Song lyrics

Way

“"You're pining."
"Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--'"”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood, pg. 33
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Sister

“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”

Ariel Gore (1970) American writer

Source: Atlas of the Human Heart

Heart, Fight

“If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 49
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

Bird

“Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

World

“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Context: Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Lovers