Quotes about love
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“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Friendship, Friendship, Romantic, For Friend

“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Understanding, For Him, For Boyfriend

“The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.”

Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

Truth, Fear

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Valentine's Day, Wedding, For Him, love

“I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

Heart

“Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

Smile, Thinking, Sun

“If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).”

Cal Newport (1982) American computer scientist

Source: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

World, Passion

“The possibility of pain is where love stems from”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Pain

“There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: Holy the Firm (1977)

Learning, Time, Heart

“Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Paradise

People, Way, Feeling, Soul

“We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.”

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

1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)
Context: We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. There is still a voice crying out through the vista of time, saying: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." Then, and only then, can you matriculate into the university of eternal life. That same voice cries out in terms lifted to cosmic proportions: "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." And history is replete with the bleached bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love.

Hate, Soul

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography

Support, Freedom, Fight

“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book

Cooking

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Giant

Source: Shadow of the Giant

Life, People

“Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Peace

“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better…”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Truth, Books, Beauty, Perfection

“There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Despair

“You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Jealousy

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Men, Fear, Feeling

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Context: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

People, Hope, Housing

“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”

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

Sleep

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Age, Girl

“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. The fantasy of rape — of which mine is in a kind of prepubescent sub-category — is common enough among women and (in mirror image) among men.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Nora Ephron: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women, Knopf Publishing, New York, 1975

Women, Men, Sex, Way

“Is it better to be loved or feared?”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince

Fear

“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.”

Philip Larkin book The Whitsun Weddings

Source: The Whitsun Weddings

“Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.”

Ann Radcliffe book The Mysteries of Udolpho

Source: The Mysteries of Udolpho

“An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”

Heinrich Böll book The Clown

Source: The Clown

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Life, Money, Family, Way

“I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.
“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Hate, Family

“nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

People

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

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

Peace, Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother

“Relationship Principle 11
It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Health, Food, Light, Night

“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Source: Up from Slavery

Men, Strong

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

“Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance."
"Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.”

Christine Feehan book Night Game

Source: Night Game

Women, Boy

“Love is a clash of lightnings”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Stupidity, World

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Moms, Water, Daughters

“Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Night

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”

Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist

“The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

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

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime — the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Truth, World, Christ

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

World, Parent, Family, For Parents

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Time

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Hate

“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Family, Light

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Attributed in The National elementary principal https://books.google.com/books?id=T8YVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&dq=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1iNCMvcHLAhUMcz4KHXvcCt84MhDoAQgfMAE (1948) - Volume 28 - Page 34; a similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace." A similar quotation is found in My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) by Sri Chinmoy: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God." <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

World, Peace, Time, Peaceful

“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Hate

“I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

Spring, Forgiveness

“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Understanding, Passion, Personality

“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: Margarettown

Pain, Pleasure, Chance

“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Children, People

“She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Trusting Soul

World, Imagination, Learning, Chance

“People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?”

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

Source: Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender

People, Question

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

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

Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

People, Relationship, Cute, Romantic

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Live and let love.
Love and let go.
Go live.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Cruel Pink

“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”

Craig Claiborne (1920–2000) Journalist and book author

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Life, Good Night