Quotes about love
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“I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

Music, Time

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Sex

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life, Joy

“Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: CAT'S EYE.

“Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.”

Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist

Chance

“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame”

Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress

Hate, Drawing

“We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Pleasure, Learning, Sea

“He is ugly and sad… but he is all love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Sadness

“I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Jamie: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
Landon: That's not a problem.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
Source: A Walk to Remember

Problem

“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer

“Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Pain, Cry

“I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive… I’m absolutely intolerable.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Revelations

Source: Revelations

Life, Death, Hate, Joy

“Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.”

John Cage book Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

Fear, Anger

“it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Sadness

“It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Hope, Way, Courage

“And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Time, Summer

“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

God

“we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Learning, Sun, Sea

“You are confusing plumbing and love again.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author

Pain, Fear

“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”

Elizabeth von Arnim book The Enchanted April

Source: The Enchanted April

Beauty

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Soul, Heart

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Heart, Hurt

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Spring, Time

“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

Understanding, Learning, Reading

“I fell in love with you. I didn't do it on purpose”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Variant: I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.
Source: The Hunter

“I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Nature

“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Life

“None of us can choose where we shall love…”

Susan Kay Phantom

Source: Phantom

“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

Color

“See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

Way, Nature, Time, Anger

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Variant: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 10

Time

“No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.”

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life, Fight

“Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Wizard Heir

People, World, Way

“Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

World

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Girl

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Sinner

Source: The Sinner

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Sense, Universe

“It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Home, Moms, Universe, Night

“Who said love was reasonable?”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: That Perfect Someone

“You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

World, Forgetting

“The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

Source: The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book

Reality

“My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Jenna Starborn

“I suppose if we’re going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Kiss, Parting

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice

Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html <br class="br">Referenced <br class="br">Source: Geschichte Meines Lebens

Teachers, Evil

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Feeling, Business

“But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.”

Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...

Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Robert Burns

Heart, Parting

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Fools, Time, Heart

“But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.”

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

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Way

“Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Angels, Star, Christmas, Christmas

“For no one, in our long decline,
So dusty, spiteful and divided,
Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,
Or loved them half as much as I did.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

People, Smile, Happy, Good Morning

“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

World, Dreams, Heart

“Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.”

Sarah Kane book 4.48 Psychosis

Source: 4.48 Psychosis

Life

“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19

Parting

“It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

People, Parting

“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Soul, Star, Bird, Night

“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”

François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness

Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness

Happiness

“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Straight Talking

Life, People, Parting

“Love will find a way against time itself.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Catching Caroline

Way, Time

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

World

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer

Source: Mr. Wrong

Feeling, Sleep

“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

People, Learning

“And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Fury's Kiss

Idea

“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”

Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) social activist and feminist

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“Love each other or perish.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy”

Zoey Dean book Tall Cool One

Source: Tall Cool One

Life, Boy

“Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill…”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Dreams

“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Dreams, Thinking

“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

Death

“Love is never any better than the lover.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

Lovers

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Children, Hope

“Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“He loved her enough to know she was better off without him”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?”

Alan Lightman (1948) Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist

Nature, Personality

“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet

Death, Fear, Lying

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

People, Books, Soul

“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Life, Flowers, Idea, Nature

“The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.”

Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer

Source: The Language of Threads

Life, Pain, Heart, Personality

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer

Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture

Learning, Happy, Relationship, Romantic

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you… Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Indifference

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Source: For One More Day

Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother

“Do you love him?”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Maura asked curiously.
"I'd rather not," Blue replied.
"He has lots of negative qualities I can help you hone in on," her mother offered.
"I'm already aware of them. Infinitely."
pg 82
The Raven Cycle Series, The Raven King (2016)
Source: Last Sacrifice