“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Source: Every Day
Quotes about love page 73
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Pt. VIII, ch. 13
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Context: Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“Okay, so she is crazy. I don’t care. I think I love her.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Endless Knight
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”
Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”
Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Source: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
“Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.”
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.”
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
“All of us are better when we're loved.”
Alistair MacLeod (1936–2014) Canadian author and professor of English
“Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Morgan Llywelyn book Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
Source: Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"Birches" (1920)
General sources
Source: Swinger of Birches
Context: I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Ain't She Sweet
“I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.”
Carolyn Mackler (1973) American writer
Source: Tangled
“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”
Jung Chang (1952) writer from China
Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Source: Bloodlines
“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence
-from "Splittings”
Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language
Source: The Dream of a Common Language
“If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152
“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Letter
“Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.”
Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
“Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?