“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?”

—  Gillian Flynn, book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, n…" by Gillian Flynn?
Gillian Flynn photo
Gillian Flynn134
American author and critic 1971

Related quotes

“I must admit that I am always perplexed when reading quotes and other writings that true love should be unconditional. Well, how about betrayal? Shouldn’t that be a condition? It is for me and should be for you.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1997

Tomaž Šalamun photo

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”

Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia

Haruki Murakami photo

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

“It is like love; oh love should be
An ever-changing thing, —
The love that I could worship must
Be ever on the wing.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

April from The London Literary Gazette (5th April 1823)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Nicholas Sparks photo

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Leo Buscaglia photo

“I don't believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it's unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another's joy, development, or unique perceptions.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

Jane Austen photo

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Stephen Chbosky photo

“I hate you."
I love you."
You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
I'm trying not to be.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Carrie Fisher photo

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”

Carrie Fisher book Shockaholic

Source: Shockaholic

Related topics