Quotes about love
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“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”

Source: Ask the Dust

“I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Home, Kiss, Time, Night

“Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Life, Girl

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Family, Family

“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“You can never love the same way twice”

Hisaya Nakajo (1973) Manga artist

Way

“So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.”

Nick Hornby book Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

Friendship, For Him, For Friend, love

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Hope, Hurt

“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

On Boxing (1987)

Hate

“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Art of Travel

Books, Sadness

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Universe

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Wise

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

Charlie Huston Already Dead

Joe Pitt Casebooks
Source: Already Dead, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)

“He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Family, Cars

“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Calhouns: Catherine, Amanda and Lilah

Time

“After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.”

James Baldwin book Going to Meet the Man

Source: Going to Meet the Man

Life, People, World, Departure

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies

Goodbye

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“The god’s expression was calm and content, as if he’d just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

God, Home

“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Forgiveness

“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”

Ayelet Waldman book Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Source: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Betrayal

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Dreams, Hope, Future

“Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

Question, Past

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

Charles Stross Saturn's Children

Source: Saturn's Children

Sleep, Heart, Personality

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book May Day

Source: May Day

Lovers, Thinking, Learning

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

Forgiveness, Madness

“If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Body

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Loyalty

“And therefor," said Magnus "We must go."
Will blinked at him. "Go where?"
"Don't worry about that right now, my love."
Will blinked again. "Pardon?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God, Help

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

World, Religion, Fight

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Life, Pain, Truth

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Life, Pain, People, Way

“Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

“Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Analects

Truth, Art

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life

“Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Way

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Context: It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Source: Romance

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Beauty, Thinking

“Who knew love could kill you?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Personality

“Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”

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

"Search for Love" in The Works of D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth Editions, (1994), p. 552

“You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

People

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love seesthem to the secret inside.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: Salt of the Air

Secret

“Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Source: Invisible Man (1952)

Feeling, Parting

“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Relationship

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Soul

“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.”

Tana French book The Secret Place

Source: The Secret Place

Hate, Beauty, Way

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Girl, Thinking

“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Heart

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Smile, Sleep, Night

“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.”

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 always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

Life, Hell, Time

“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

Truth, Fear, Way, Light

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Stupidity, Personality

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”