Quotes about love page 77
Charles Bukowski book Women
Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Someone to Watch Over Me
“If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Art of Power
“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”
Philip Yancey (1949) American writer
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Variant: Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”
Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies
Source: Interpreter of Maladies
“. “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.”
Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer
Source: Be Still My Vampire Heart
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
“Be genuine. Laugh. Love. Be patient.”
Debbie Miller (1950)
Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Variant: 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink. I never had the courtesy to thank her.
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
887: We outgrow love, like other things
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
“Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: The Tao of Emerson the Tao of Emerson
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916) American writer
“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory
Source: The Power and the Glory
“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 68
Source: Revelations of Divine Love
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Riding Shotgun
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Passion
“Love, and you shall be loved.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
During a dinner discussion with Kristen Bell and Jean Reno. Filmed for a week of shows in Paris, France.
2011-08-05 broadcast
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
“I could not make a move without making love.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Just Like Heaven
“…how monstrous the people you loved could be.”
Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer
Source: Night Film
“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
“You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“One day
Time will die
And love will bury it”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
“Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
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: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
Henry James book The Wings of the Dove
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Letter to Jacob De La Motta (August 1820), Manuscript Division, Papers of James Madison http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/madison.html <br class="br">1820s <br class="br">Context: Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth. <br class="br">Context: Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. And it is particularly pleasing to observe in the good citizenship of such as have been most distrusted and oppressed elsewhere, a happy illustration of the safety and success of this experiment of a just and benignant policy. Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
Barbara Johnson (1947–2009) American literary critic
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 20
“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.”
Henry B. Eyring (1933) American Mormon leader
“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You….”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: P.S. I Love You
Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variant: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Context: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
“Love," he said, "has the longest arms.”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Charmed Thirds
