Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.
Source: Women (1978)
Quotes about love page 7
“There's only one thing that can heal the heart… Only one… It's love, Gaara.”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3 <br class="br">Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States
Source: Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life-
I love you.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
“It is very easy to love alone.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.”
P. C. Cast (1960) American writer
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
“The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.”
Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Source: Marjorie's Three Gifts
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”
Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Who Is Mark Twain?
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) Poet
Variant: Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
Source: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
Richard Siken (1967) American poet
Source: Crush
“I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
"Early Sorrow" in Tellers of Tales : 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany edited by William Somerset Maugham (1939), p. 884
“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
“A heart ain't a brain
But I think
That I still love
you”
Chris Brown (1989) American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor , and painter
Source: "Why I Write" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/write.html, Gangrel (Summer 1946) <br class="br">Context: Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.<br>It is not easy. It raises problems of construction and of language, and it raises in a new way the problem of truthfulness.
“Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Wer verliebt ist, ist demütig. Wer liebt, hat sozusagen ein Stück seines Narzißmus eingebüßt.
"Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6" (1924), p. 183
1920s
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us. It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression. The wrongdoer may request forgiveness. He may come to himself, and, like the prodigal son, move up with some dusty road, his heart palpitating with the desire for forgiveness. But only the injured neighbor, the loving father back home can really pour out the warm waters of forgiveness.
“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”
Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
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Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Seraphim Rose (1934–1982) American Orthodox writer and saint
Source: God's Revelation to the Human Heart
“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher