Quotes about love page 71
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were”
Sylvia Day book Bared to You
Source: Bared to You
“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”
Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: The Cornel West Reader
Roald Dahl book Boy
Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Misattributed
Variant: My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
"This explains Joss perfectly." at Whedonesque.com (15 February 2006)
“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer
Source: Night Film
“Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Kiss of Death
“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“I loved him too much not to hate him at all!”
Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!
Source: Hermione, Andromaque (1667), act II, scene I.
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?
Kyōichi Katayama (1959) Japanese writer
Source: Socrates In Love
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
“Love was the most savage monster of all.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“… there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”
Daphne Kalotay American writer
Source: Russian Winter
Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer
Source: How to Save a Life
“I learned to love the feel of good words.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”
Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist
Source: Just Wanna Testify
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: In Bed with a Highlander
“What in life can love not penetrate?”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“I guess all that's left is to love the fire.”
Norman Mailer book Advertisements for Myself
Source: Advertisements for Myself
“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist
Source: The Good Body
“Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Terry Tempest Williams book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.”
Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author
Source: Six Cousins Again
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator