Quotes about love
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“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) American activist

"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Life, Truth, Feeling, Thinking

“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Anagrams

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Life

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation

Life, Friendship

“There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Men, For Men

“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 18

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Happiness

“Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Behavior

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Doctor in Petticoats (Center Point Christian Romance

People, Peace, Strong, Personality

“Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.”

Sarah Strohmeyer (1950) American writer

Source: Kindred Spirits

Personality

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever”

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Heart

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I judge you not by the sex of whom you love… but by how you love them.
-Layla, page 306”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Sex

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Soul, Time

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Way, Parent, Water, For Parents

“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

“He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Thinking

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

People, Forgetting

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: The Magnetic Fields

Color, Change, Dead

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52

People, Success

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956

Life

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.

“I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: The Devil's Web

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Hate

“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Making love, Thinking

“I love my virginity to the apocalypse.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Men, Feeling, Thinking, Learning

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Way

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Girl, Boy

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Heart

“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Chance

“I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Way, Dead

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”

Kate Mosse book The Winter Ghosts

Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts

“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake”

James M. Cain book Double Indemnity

Source: Double Indemnity

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell

Pain, Hurt, Personality

“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?'
'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

War, Coffee

“We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”

Andrea Levy book The Long Song

Source: The Long Song

Good Morning, love

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Every Last One

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

People

“fraught, adj.

Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Lovers, Kiss, Night

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Friendship, Heart

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Girl

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Sadness

“No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary)
But it doesn’t feel temporary. (Arik)
It never does at its onset. It’s only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Feeling, Time

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

Beauty, Housing

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Hate, Boy

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin book The Birds' Christmas Carol

Source: The Birds' Christmas Carol

People, Thinking

“I love you, Elizabeth… and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Time

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

Death, War

“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Life, Death, World, Lovers

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Peace, Forgiveness, Heart

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Andrew Sean Greer book The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Life, Stupidity, Beauty

“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

Rage

“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love’s transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Scandal

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Flowers, Heart Touching, For Her, love

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”

Joan Didion book The White Album

The White Album
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html

“I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Never Seduce a Scot

“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.

--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Way, Girl, Madness, Forgetting

“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Life, Search

“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives

God

“Don't stop doing what you love.
Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

Future

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Beauty, Idea, Freedom, Heart

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

God, World

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Ice Palace

Source: The Ice Palace

World, Way, Change, Past

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

People, Learning

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Sense

“Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Why I Wake Early

Parting

“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”

Ron Rash book Serena

Source: Serena

“I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Life

“Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before."
Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Forgetting

“A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”

Joseph Stein (1912–2010) American playwright

Source: Fiddler on the Roof

Home, Bird, Fish

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Ain't She Sweet

God, Happiness, Waiting

“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Beauty, Heart

“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.”

J.M. Coetzee book Slow Man

Source: Slow Man

Truth, Light, Anger

“You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Way, Mountain

“How could you stop loving me?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

Life, Fear, Way

“… can I tell you something…? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”

Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle

Source: The Inner Circle

Thinking, Past, Future

“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Way

“It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

Reported in The Quotable Quote Book (Carol Publishing Group, 1990), p. 258

“You just have to let people love you in the way they can”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

People, Way

“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.”

Tori Amos book Piece by Piece

Source: Piece by Piece

Singing

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Soul

“A wise man can be a fool in love.”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

Fools

“It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

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