Quotes about love
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“Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.”

Source: The Golden Lily

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Feeling

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

People

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Girl, Time

“I love to do the things the censors won't pass.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

“Love saves.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Sins of the Night

“Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Hurt

“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.”

Jeffrey McDaniel (1967) American writer

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”

Orson Scott Card book Empire

Source: Empire

Courage, Personality

“On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Dogs, Flying

“What am I supposed to do,
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that,
And there's no turning back.
I need time to move on,
I need love to feel strong.
Cause I've got time to think it through,
And maybe I'm too good for you!”

Cher (1946) American singer and actress

Feeling, Thinking, Strong, Time

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

People, Feeling, Hell, Water

“But you can love more than just one person, can't you?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Personality

“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Valentine's Day

“Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.”

Meredith Ann Pierce (1958) American writer

Source: The Pearl of the Soul of the World

“My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Eye Scream

“And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Time

“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.”

Sherryl Woods (1944) American writer

Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas

God, Peace, Hope, Angels

“Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Confessions of a Barbarian

Laughter, Passion, Fight

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Way

“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”

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

Way, Waiting

“Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 16, pp. 54–55

God, Way

“Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love”

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

Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

Dance

“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

“Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Source: The Plague of Doves

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Personality

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Life, Sleep, Memory, Dead

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Feeling, Time

“The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.”

Jonathan Carroll book Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

Life, Peace

“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“"Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
"At least you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace and Madame Dorothea, pg. 345
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Thinking, Hurt, Deep

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Hate, Personality

“Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Heart

“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Feeling, Silence, Time

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Feeling, Laughter

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

God

“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”

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

Life

“But it’s December now, and the sky is bright, and it’s clear to me. I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Truth

“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”

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

Women, Madness

“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Gratitude

“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Pain, Learning, Hurt

“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines (1964)

Marriage

“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Water, Time