Quotes about love
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“She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Books, Way, Girl, Clothes

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

Memory, Heart, Childhood, Christmas

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Powerbook

“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Lie, Dreams, Time

“Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

Source: Spirited Away, Volume 5

“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

World, Courage, Indifference

“Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

People, Feeling, Sense

“When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Life

“Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”

Danielle Steel Five Days in Paris

Source: Five Days in Paris

Hope, Courage

“Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Big Cherry Holler

Truth, World

“Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

People, Family

“Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.”

Danielle Steel book The Gift

Variant: She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Source: The Gift

Life

“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever… and the other one scared me out of my mind.”

Frederik Pohl book Gateway

Source: Gateway

Life, Chance

“Do all things with love.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Hunger

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer

Attributed

People, Forgiveness, Parting

“In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love for a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don’t understand why it’s so hard, when it’s so obvious.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People, Understanding

“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Way, Behavior

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Women, Men

“Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

Heart

“You always kill the one you love.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“You belong among the wildflowers.
You belong in a boat out at sea.
you belong with your love on your arm.
You belong somewhere you feel free.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Wildflowers
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

Feeling, Sea

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

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

Art

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Life, God, Motivation, Thinking

“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
No.
“No?”
No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained.

It simply was.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“That is not love. That is debt.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

People, World

“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Thinking

“Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”

Tanith Lee book Delirium's Mistress

Source: Delirium's Mistress

Flowers

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

People, Hope, Thinking

“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Home, Boy, Parting, Cry

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

World

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

Summer

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Dreams

“I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“Success is loving life and daring to live it.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life, Success

“… falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Fools, Forgetting

“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

“I really hate you sometimes."
"There's a fine line between love and hate."
I glared at him. "Dream on.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: Reign Fall

Hate, Dreams

“You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Way

“I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.”

Rumer Godden (1907–1998) English writer

“Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Lost Herondale

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Source: Letters of Swami Vivekananda

Life, Law, Selfishness

“Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.”

Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist

Source: Winter's Bone

Parting

“Every king of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire… driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Hunger, Light, Heart

“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:29.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)

Chance

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

“He killed them with their love”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly."

"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

"Guys do ridiculous things for love.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Way, Guy, Parting

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, World, Loneliness

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual

Life, Sense

“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948) American writer

Life, Personality, Forgetting

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

“He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“She gave me a hard look. "No one likes a wiseass, Harry."
"Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone, people love 'em.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

People

“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

War

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Pain, Loss, Hurt, Hurtful

“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Children, Perfection

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Clothes

“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Disease, Suffering

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Death, Imagination

“I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Star

“When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Way, Time

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The World As I See It

Justice, Star, Knowledge, Personality

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Context: This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

God, Books, Beauty, Art

“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Heart, For Her, love

“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach

“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts

Feeling, Wolf

“We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Learning, Heart

“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

Jackie Kay (1961) Poet and novelist

Source: Trumpet

Life, Problem, Parting

“Love… is the immovability of truth.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Truth

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

God, Hate, Faith

“His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.”

Margaret Weis book Dragons of a Fallen Sun

Source: Dragons of a Fallen Sun

“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”

Kate Mosse book Sepulchre

Source: Sepulchre

Pain, Fools, Color

“As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

World, Beauty, Sense

“There was a silence. Hannah's own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Silence, Heart

“The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Angels Twice Descending

People

“I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

Men, Understanding, Time

“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

Reality, Sense, Anger

“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Suffering

“You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Books, World, Dogs

“No woman ever hates a man
for being in love with her;
but mainly a woman hates a
man for being her friend.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Hate

“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things.
                 You wanted to be in love
                             and he happened to get in the way.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Way, Thinking

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Variant: People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Source: Diary

People, Suffering

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

Agatha Christie book Sad Cypress

Source: Sad Cypress

Passion, Time, Joy

“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Variant: There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Life

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Light, Suffering, Training

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Money, Sense

“We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Boy, Dance

“To Sorrow
I bade good morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Bk. IV, l. 173
Endymion (1818)
Source: The Complete Poems
Context: To Sorrow
I bade good-morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind:
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But ah! she is so constant and so kind.