Quotes about love
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“Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit… -Calvin Johnson”

Michael Azerrad (1961) American musician and writer

Source: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

Age, Beauty, Sport, Heart

“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”

Franz Wright (1953–2015) American poet

Source: Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Death, People, Dead

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”

Jeannette Walls (1960) American writer and journalist

People

“You have to live to really know things, my love”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: First Comes Marriage

Happiness

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Problem

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).

Men

“UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To
give iT after your conditions have been meT :P”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Beauty

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician

Beauty, Feeling

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

Idea, Heart

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

World, Beauty, Boy, Change

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Change

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 40 : The Valley Of The Shadow
Source: Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer

Truth, Beauty

“He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

World, Perfection

“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”

Béla Lugosi (1882–1956) Hungarian actor

Women, Cry

“You cannot convince people to love you.”

Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

People

“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"Queen of the Black Coast" (1934)
Source: Conan the Barbarian Omnibus -The Original Stories
Context: He shrugged his shoulders. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."

Life

“Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:

He’d loved her for all time
After he’d believed she was gone
Sunshine to his ice.
Frost to her fever.
I wished them forever. The Unseelie King was gone.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Time

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Statement written weeks before his death in 1994, as quoted in "Unseen Bill Hicks Clip" in Esquire (3 February 2014) https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/news/a5661/unseen-bill-hicks-clip/

Truth, Laughter