Quotes about love
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“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: How to Love

Personality

“Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Sleep

“Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.”

Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer

Source: Nobody's Princess

Beauty

“I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,” he said softly. “And you know that.”

Diana Gabaldon book Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Heart

“People are never perfect, but love can be.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

People, Perfection

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

School, Sex

“A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Making love

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Pain

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

People, Sadness, Bee

“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”

Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins

Source: Love in the Ruins

Women, God, Beauty, Heart

“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Variant: When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Heart

“All stories are love stories.”

Robert McLiam Wilson book Eureka Street

Source: Eureka Street

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Past

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Courage, Time, Wise, Courageous

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Willful Creatures

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Life, Forgiveness

“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Heart

“I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking, Evil

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Faith

“For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Lost Herondale

Family, Girl, Time

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At the end of the French movie, the lover sings, "Love me less, but love me for a long time.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Lovers, Singing, Time

“The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.”

Peter Ackroyd (1949) English author

Source: First Light

Books, Reading, Parting

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Soul, Cute, Powerful, Romantic

“… love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Truth

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

People

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Guy, Girl, Thinking, Personality

“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 42 [Burīchi 42]

Hate, Loneliness

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Hope, Understanding

“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.”

Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955) American writer

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Life, Happiness, Hope, Idea

“To her-
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
because we love you.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Books

“In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

Source: The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

Beauty, Freedom, Past, Future

“I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

“This love is silent.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“People who love work, love life.”

Louise Fitzhugh book Harriet the Spy

Source: Harriet the Spy

Life, People

“Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Way

“Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Source: At First Sight

Thinking

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

World

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Tear, Silence, Loss, Heart

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Color, Soul, Thinking, Water

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

Rage, Anger

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Men, Question

“He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love

(when God whisper your name)”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

God

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Wind in the Door

Source: A Wind in the Door

Feeling

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

World

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love… I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Friendship, Beauty, Thinking, Sleep

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

Source: The Toughest Indian in the World

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.”

Ben Sherwood book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Star, Heart, Sea, Wise

“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls”

Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

Fate, Dogs, Soul, Heart

“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Passion

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

“Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

Life, Pain

“You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you."
"I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Dragon Heir

Lying

“I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Life, World, Thinking

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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Star, Thinking, Heart

“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Time

“Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?'
'He's a teddy bear,' I said.
Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.

(Rene and Kate on Jim!)”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Suffering

“Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

Fear, Feeling, Sense

“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Hostility, People, World, Deep

“Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Life, Smile

“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Source: The Matchmaker

Thinking, Time

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Source: On Beauty (2005)

Lie

“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual

Source: The Musgrave Ritual

“There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place, a warm person. It exists, I know it does”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Happiness, Smile, Home, Parent

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Girl

“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”

John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright

Source: The Beggar's Opera

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

Happiness, Beauty, Success

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Good Morning

“After all, only women are able really to love.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

Women

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Strong

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Smile

“I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Food, Question

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Heart

“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Understanding, Light

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

Dependency

“I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

Boy, Madness

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

Letter to Anthony Collins (29 October 1703) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1726#lf0128-09_head_098

Truth, World, Parting, Perfection

“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

To Fanny Brawne (c. February 1820)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: "If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

Beauty, Time

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Personality

“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.”

Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist

Source: The Accidental Tourist

“Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

School

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

World

“Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Cats

“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”

Helen Oyeyemi (1984) British author

Source: What is Not Yours is Not Yours

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Thinking

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Feeling, Understanding

“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it."
"And now you do?"
"And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Happiness, Feeling, Time

“We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Time Between

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”

Marc Jacobs (1963) American fashion designer

People, Nature, Sense

“You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.
— Tiny Cooper”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Beauty, Sleep

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Change

“I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

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