Quotes about love
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“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Wisdom, God, Way

“In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Thinking, Painting

“Vows of friendship and love are stronger”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Friendship

“But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future´s sakes.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Two Tramps in Mud Time" (1936), st. 9
General sources

Future

“Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope, Way, Feeling

“The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: Maybe, Maybe Not

Heart

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Passion

“If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.”

Krishna Dharma (1955) British Hindu scholar and author

Forgiveness

“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Beauty, Intelligence

“I would do anything for you. Anything."

With that, he pushed his way out… and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.

Actions did mean more than words.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Way

“Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Parting

“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Pain, Flowers, Understanding, Cooking

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

Widely attributed on the Internet to John Ruskin; see this Google search https://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&oq=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&gs_l=serp.12...143064.148395.0.150598.2.2.0.0.0.0.108.196.1j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.0.0.JURsIFvRl34 for thousands of pages containing the quote AND "John Ruskin" but NOT "Charles Reade".<br><br>This is actually from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade. <br class="br">Misattributed

Success

“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”

Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School

Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)

“… most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

People, Time

“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Death, World, Time

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Men, Heart

“Love only brought me lonliness and horror.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

Parting

“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

People, History, Perfection

“He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Feeling

“Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Way

“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Soul, Heart

“Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

God

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”

William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee

Source: The Wild Palms

Women, Men

“This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you—
It takes life to love Life.”

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) American writer

Life, Hope, Strong, Daughters

“I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Dark of the Moon

“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130

Knowledge

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”

W.D. Snodgrass (1926–2009) Poet

Learning

“When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

“Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Night

“Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.

Love is a fool star.

You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.

Love is a fool star.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Fools, Star, Heart, Sea

“I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Smile, Sleep

“It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Girl Stays in the Picture

Guy, Business, Time

“I love humanity but I hate people.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Hate, People

“There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XIII, p. 66

People, Religion

“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

God, Tea

“one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Way, Imagination, Baby

“Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop."
"What?"
"What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple."
"Raisa, this is getting us nowhere."
"Say it!”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Appearance

“And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.”

From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved.

(Ivy and Rachel)”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

Smile, Feeling, Lying

“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”

Jamaica Kincaid (1949) Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer

Source: The Autobiography of My Mother

Happiness, Past

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

God, Faith, Personality

“The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

World, Feeling, Heart

“I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.

"How much?" He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.

"Without limit. Beyond forever.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Kiss

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Sleep

“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Peaches

Loyalty

“That's how love got lost… when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Appearance

“"Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
"Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Reality

“We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Way, Help, Housing, Night

“Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Lie, Lying, Waiting, Heart

“Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ⎼ for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Education, Family, Beauty, Art

“I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Dreams, Imagination

“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Anybody Out There?

People

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Evercrossed

Joy

“I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Lost in Time

Forgiveness

“He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Sadness, Feeling, Girl

“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

“.. he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

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

“Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Memory, Hurt

“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”

Doreen Virtue (1958) American writer

Wisdom, God

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

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

Beauty, Art, Beauty

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

Hope, Hurt, Madness

“Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.”

Eknath Easwaran book Original Goodness

[Original goodness: On the beatitudes of the sermon on the mount, Easwaran, Eknath, w:Eknath Easwaran, 1996, Nilgiri Press, Tomales, CA, 0915132923, http://books.google.com/books?id=EVMJXI4pJFMC&pg=PT155&lpg=PT155&dq=%22Love+is+so+exquisitely+elusive.+It+cannot+be+bought,+cannot+be+badgered,+cannot+be+hijacked.+It+is+available+only+in+one+rare+form:+as+the+natural+response+of+a+healthy+mind+and+healthy+heart.+%22+eknath+easwaran&source=bl&ots=p9woVsJ6yV&sig=tbv5qJjAiu6YNqt8luZX4RM0rFg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tdSdT7f9IOi9iwLF5NhU&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false] (p. 155) (book originally published 1989: p. 131)

Nature, Heart

“Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.”

Lisa Unger book Die for You

Source: Die for You

Forgiveness, Time

“So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

Life, Pain, Hate, Youth

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Born in Fire

Sadness, Lovers, Tear

“Thank you, Shay. (Syn)
For what? (Shahara)
For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

“Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Sister, Joy

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Life, Men

“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

World, Help

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Girl, Boy, Time, Help

“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.”

Henryk Sienkiewicz book Quo Vadis

Source: Quo Vadis

Happiness, Spring, Thinking, Dependency

“I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.”

Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) British writer

Children, Cry

“I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Hate, World, Fear, Way

“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

World, Girl