Quotes about love
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“Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.”

Variant: In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
Source: Every Day

“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

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

Letter to Blanche Jennings (8 May 1909), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton, Vol. 1 (1979), pp. 127

God

“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

People

“Any love that is love is right.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life

“He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Passion

“I love you, hugs & kisses, smoochies galore, licks, nibbles & assorted gropages!! -Aisling said to Drake”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Holy Smokes

Kiss

“Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”

Joseph O`Connor (1916–2001) Anglo-Irish actor and playwright

Source: Star of the Sea

Freedom

“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be… enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"The Times Newspaper"
Political Essays (1819)

love

“Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.”

Christopher Moore book Fool

Source: Fool

“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?

- Epithalamion”

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet

Source: Amoretti and Epithalamion

“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Forgetting

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

“Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love… love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Life, People

“… that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Hate

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

Joy

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.”

Robin McKinley book Rose Daughter

Source: Rose Daughter

Heart

“Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Soul, Lovers, Time, Animals

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

Lynda Barry (1956) Cartoonist

“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to be a victim.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

World, Feeling, Strong

“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

Soul

“We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.”

Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End

Source: Then We Came to the End

Way, Search, Business, Reality

“What will survive of us is love.

- from”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

"An Arundel Tomb" (20 February 1956)
Variant: Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
Source: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Life, Feeling

“He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”

Irving Stone book The Agony and the Ecstasy

Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy

God

“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

People, Sense, Silence

“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Hope, Forgiveness, Thinking

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Women, Sleep

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Passion, Evil

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Sense

“A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.”

Fumiko Enchi book Masks

Source: Masks

Revenge, Passion

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Source: The Fry Chronicles

World, Beauty, Understanding

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Hate, Art, Thinking

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en répondant: parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi.
Variants: If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Book I, Ch. 28
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays

“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Fear

“We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

World

“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

People, Cry

“Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Suffering

“How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”

Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

Sleep

“They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations…”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Study, Light

“And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.”

Milan Kundera book Ignorance

Source: Ignorance

Books, Way, Time, Past

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”

Raymond E. Feist book Magician: Master

Source: Magician: Master

Parting

“How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

Pain, Loss

“You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said.

That's true. William agreed.”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Source: Boys "R" Us

People

“It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Life, Feeling

“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

About her documentary I Am Because We Are http://www.youtube.com/user/iambecauseweare

Color

“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Way

“For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had… Someone to live for… Unafraid to say 'I love you!”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright

Source: Rent (1996)

Happiness, Angels

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Life, Money, Decision, Time

“Vice is basically the love of failure.”

Elfriede Jelinek (1946) Austrian writer

Source: Pianolærerinnen

Failure

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade

Source: Masquerade

Light

“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Death, Game

“I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Kings of Clonmel

Beauty, Forgiveness, Kiss, Sister

“I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.”

William Gibson book Idoru

Source: Idoru

People, Thinking, Loyalty

“I'll use the knives for spreading
jam, and the gas to warm
my greying love.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Light, Forgetting

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Source: What Is the What

“Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Dead

“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Photo

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)

Hate, People, Thinking

“We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

Life, Way

“Do you even really know how vampires are made?'
'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Simon, pg. 8
Variant: Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Fallen Angels (2011)