Quotes about love page 75
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) Contemporary African American writer and performance artist
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)
Variant: i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
As quoted in Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anaïs to Zee (1997) by Wayne M. Bryant, p. 143
Attributed
Yukio Mishima book Confessions of a Mask
Source: Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 208.
Context: I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.”
Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist
Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life
“shane:you only love me for my abs
clair:shut up loser shift off”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Feast of Fools
“Of course I loved books more than people.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
“You've such a lovely temperature.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Love is for children. I owe him a debt.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“Why is the measure of love… loss? pg.9”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Written on the Body (1992)
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Dawson Cole, Chapter 11, p. 174
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream
and I'll give you love
unfolding.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
“Love cannot be measured by its duration…”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
“Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”
Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby
Source: This Lullaby
“Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
page 98
Source: The God of Small Things (1997)
Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride
Variant: I have loved you in return, more than you will ever know.
Source: The Longest Ride
“You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Kiss an Angel
“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry And June
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves
Source: House of Leaves
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008)
Variant: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Wall Street Journal (13 November 1962), Notable & Quotable , p. 18
1960s
Context: It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.
Stewart O'Nan (1961) American writer
Source: The Odds: A Love Story
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre
Source: Danse Macabre
“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist
Source: "Dragonrider", published in Analog (January 1968), p. 148; also in Dragonsong, (1976) Ch. 7, p. 89
“Love is dope, not chicken soup.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Rant in E-Minor (1997)
Variant: The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
