Quotes about love
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“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

World, Heart, Relationship, Good Night

“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

World, Learning

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Death, Heart

“The wise are wise only because they love.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

As quoted in Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love (1999) by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch.
Unsourced variant: The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Variant: The wise are wise only because they love.
Source: The Zahir

“When Love And Jealousy
Collide On The Slopes,
Winter Break Turns Deadly”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Jealousy, Winter

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Idea

“Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream.
Allie”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams, Reading

“One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

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

Fear, Feeling

“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things.

Love is the same way.

Use it to "season" people.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

People, Way, Season

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

People, Soul, Light, Time

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Communication, Learning

“When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Soul, Kiss

“I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.”

Thomas Harris Hannibal Rising

Source: Hannibal Rising

“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Faith, Lying

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Madness

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: Centavos

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…”

Keri Hulme book The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

Personality

“I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People, Reality

“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 100 Selected Poems

Spring, Flowers

“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”

Jack London book The Sea-Wolf

Source: The Sea Wolf

“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

World, Girl

“An ugly, lovely town… crawling, sprawling… by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

World, Sea

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Hate

“I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t.

“That’s what you all keep saying,” I answered. “But it doesn’t seem to get me any happier.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Reckoning

Source: Dead Reckoning

“And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants.

Pants = Love”

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

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

Color

“time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Life, Tree, Time

“We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.”

Gordon Korman book The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

“When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Echoes

Heart

“Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Clod and the Pebble, st. 3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Source: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Hell, Loss, Joy

“I love myself when I am laughing… and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Source: I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Courage, Heart

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”

Winston Groom Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

“I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

“i love you Ivy. I'll never stop loving you."
"I prayed for one more chance to reach you," he said, "to tell you how much I love you and to tell you to keep on loving. Someone else was meant for you, Ivy, and you were meant for someone else.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates

Chance

“In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

Past

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Death, Forgetting, Romantic

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

God, Beauty

“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”

Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning

Source: Saving Fish from Drowning

Pain, Stupidity

“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker, Macmillan, 1992, ISBN 0312068972, p. 383.
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