Quotes about love
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“The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Life, God, Suffering

“Did you know that baby,
You're the bluebird in my sky,
I only want to make you happy
Because I love you see you fly”

Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States

Happiness, Baby, Flying

“So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.”

Veronica Franco (1546–1591) Italian poet and courtesan

Source: Poems and Selected Letters

Pleasure, Sense

“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

Waiting

“The little things, Emma. The gestures, the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him, even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Heart

“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”

Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) French playwright

Life

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Imagination, For women, Relationship

“Love and respect a woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.”

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) Italian patriot, politician and philosopher

Idea

“If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off."
I love you too."
- Saphira and Eragon”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

Source: Saphira to Eragon: "If anything happens, I’m going to pin you to my back and never let you off.
Eragon: I love you too.
Saphira: Then I will bind you all the tighter.

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 (1973), p. 3
Source: Gift from the Sea
Context: I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

World, Understanding, Suffering, Patience

“Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Question, Motivational, Deep, Success

“Love me sweet
With all thou art
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the Lightest part,
Love me in full Being.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Art, Feeling, Thinking, Parting

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Dogs, Hell

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”

Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker

“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

“I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Reading

“Living simply makes loving simple.”

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

Making love

“My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.”

Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic

Past, Future

“You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served".”

Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist

Learning

“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”

Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States

World

“Love is merely a madness.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

Madness

“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Relationship, Cute, Romantic, Anniversary

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Life, Heart, Personality, Hope

“There will never be no love at all.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 125
Original: Nunca amamos niguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso — em suma, é a nós mesmos — que amamos.
Source: The Book of Disquiet

Idea

“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Source: The Dance of the Soul

Life, Death, Men, God

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s

Relationship, Cute, Romantic, For Her

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”

James Herriot (1916–1995) veterinary surgeon and writer

Source: All Creatures Great and Small

Feeling, Soul, Animals, Loyalty

“Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 251

Happiness, Family, Funny, Happy

“Shura… are you… in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest… my blood… my compass… my love…”

Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter

Music

“I love you still,
Against my will.”

Sarah Kane book Crave

Source: Crave

“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”

Patti Smith M Train

Source: M Train

“It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.'
'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?'
'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.”

Tove Jansson book The Summer Book

Source: The Summer Book

“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”

Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter

Baby, love

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)

Life, Flowers, Heart, Dead

“you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye.
P. S. i will always love you”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

“Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Tear, Victory

“I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Hate, Fear, Way, Failure

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Color

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

Walter Mosley book Blue Light

Source: Blue Light

Change

“To love something is to destroy it forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.”

David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Universe, Sun

“I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”

Cher (1946) American singer and actress

"Cher Genius", an interview in You magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper (28 November 2010), interviewed by Elaine Lipworth in Las Vegas.

Girl, Time, Waiting

“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Behavior

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Life, Youth, World, Flying

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”

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

Life, Death, Food, Birth

“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Star

“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

Source: Why Revival Tarries

God

“I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Making love, Feeling, Time

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Hate, Birth

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

Time

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Courage

“There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Source: What I Know For Sure

Life, Happiness, Law, Universe

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Flowers

“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Lie, Christ

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Friendship, Light, Heart, Deep

“I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

Source: Eragon

“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Variant: He who loves not Wine, Women and Song
Remains a fool his whole life long

Life, Women, Fools, Wine

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

René Magritte (1898–1967) Belgian surrealist artist

“Quick-loving hearts… may quickly loathe.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

Heart

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

World, Search, Relationship

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Life

“Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

Behavior, Personality

“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

For Her, For Wife

“What love lays bare in me is energy.”

Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Love among the ruins… I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Life, Bird, Sea

“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.”

Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

Life, Hurt

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

Source: The Big Book of Hell

Night, love

“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Home, Appearance

“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Source: Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Context: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.

Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.

Flowers

“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.”

Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer

Happiness, Beauty, Clothes

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Sad, Heartbreaking, Hurtful, Missing You

“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Dreams, Imagination, Support

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: Essays and Aphorisms

Solitude, Freedom

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest

People, Learning

“Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."

"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around… him. It makes total sense.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Sense

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Friendship

“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995) American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy

World

“Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.”

Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989) Japanese cartoonist and animator

Sense

“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Father's Day

“See no one loves you more than me… and no one ever will”

Lauryn Hill (1975) American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actress

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: 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

Life, War, Learning

“You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

Perfection, Relationship, Cute, For Him

“If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. XIV
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile —her look —her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

“Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.”

Christina Dodd (1957) American writer

Source: A Well Pleasured Lady

Confidence, Thinking, Strong, Suffering

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Change

“Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.”

Miloš Forman (1932–2018) czech-American director, screenwriter, and professor

Music

“This is a state of grace
This is the worthwhile fight
Love is a ruthless game
Unless you play it good and right”

Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter

State of Grace, written by Taylor Swift
Song lyrics, Red (2012)

Game, Fight

“We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 278

God, Search, Christ

“Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.”

Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian

An Audience With Billy - 1985

Women, Men, Lie, Sex

“Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.”

Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist

Auden, W.H.; Kronenberger, Louis (1966), The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press.

Dependency

“Goethe as an old man: he was so very punctual. At that time he also wrote many things that were very punctual. The rounded thing is boring. Turn it as you may, it remains round and pretty.
I love the edges, the sharp lines, and fractures.
I show to him a picture of Dostoevsky. How ruptured, furrowed, tormented!
He looks like Michelangelo; the face of an endurer and a prophet.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Der alte Goethe: er war so pünktlich. Er schrieb damals auch vieles, was sehr pünktlich war. Das Runde ist langweilig. Dreh es wie du willst, es bleibt rund und schön.
Ich liebe Ecken, Kanten und Risse.
Ich lege ihm ein Bild von Dostojewski vor. Wie zerrissen, wie zerfurcht und zerhauen!
So sieht auch Michelangelo aus; ein Dulder- und Prophetengesicht.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Time

“We see the strongest guarantee of peace for Europe in a policy of expansion. When have we exploited the embarrassments of other peoples? When Russia was at war with Japan, the Tsar was able to take his last regiment away from our frontier. We did not regard Morocco as an object of war, we looked on while East Africa was divided, while France was creating a great colonial empire of Tunis, Algiers and Morocco, while Italy occupied Tripolis, while Persia was divided between Britain and Russia into two spheres of interest—the world could always rely on the German Kaisers and the German people's love of peace. And what thanks have we had? A world of enemies…When one awakens in this way from a beautiful dream one must not follow that dream again, must not in future believe that renunciation of a world policy will be a guarantee of permanent freedom. They grudged us the right to economic development. We thank the Chancellor for what he said yesterday concerning our security in the East and West.”

Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929) German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Speech in the Reichstag (6 April 1916), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 75
1910s

War, People, World, Peace

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