“I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.”

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

Alice Walker book The Temple of My Familiar

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

“Love without communication is like two sides of a coin that live together, but never see and meet each other. Love without any medium of communication is full of struggle and a yearning. It is just like living with one hope in mind and spending your whole life waiting for each other.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

“Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution from the territory of the humanly admissible, to my mind. Love is a state in which one lives who loves, and whoever loves has given himself away; love then, and not marriage, is belonging. Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

“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