Love Image With Quote Biography
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
tags: dating, julia-romano, love, unrequited 1441 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”
― Nicholas Sparks
tags: love, romance 1235 likes like
Bell Hooks
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
― Bell Hooks
tags: abuse, commitment, love, men, relationships, women 1009 likes like
Amy Sedaris
“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
tags: advice, affairs, dating, jewelry, life, love, men, relationships, romance, women 912 likes like
Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
tags: love 888 likes like
Demi Lovato
“He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.”
― Demi Lovato
tags: being-loved, life, love, true-love 884 likes like
Salvador Plascencia
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
tags: longing, love, sadness 869 likes like
Tahereh Mafi
“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.
I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
tags: love 863 likes like
Simone Elkeles
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
tags: ammends, atonement, love 863 likes like
Dalai Lama XIV
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind 856 likes like
George Gordon Byron
“In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears”
― George Gordon Byron
tags: love 852 likes like
G.K. Chesterton
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: enemies, love, neighbors 849 likes like
Mitch Albom
“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
tags: change, love, time 847 likes like
Drew Barrymore
“Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”
― Drew Barrymore
tags: courtship, kissing, love, romance 842 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
tags: hope, love, personal-growth, romance 840 likes like
Emily Giffin
“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
tags: baby-proof, claudia, emily-giffin, love 839 likes like
Mahatma Gandhi
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power 836 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: eternal-questions, love, power 834 likes like
George Bernard Shaw
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
tags: food, gluttony, love 826 likes like
Dorothy Parker
“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth 820 likes like
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: love 820 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
tags: fragility, love, vulnerability 819 likes like
Julie Kagawa
“You are my heart, my life, my entire existence."
-Ash”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
tags: ash, iron-fey-trilogy, julie-kagawa, love 817 likes like
C.S. Lewis
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis
tags: god, inspirational, love 816 likes like
Nicole Krauss
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
tags: love, romance 813 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
tags: distance, love 809 likes like
Criss Jami
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
tags: art, beautiful, chances, commitment, commitments, courting, courtship, dating, divorce, faith, faithful, faithfulness, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, inspirational, lifetime, lifetime-truth, love, marriage, mates, paradox, patience, people, perfection, promise, promises, relationships, risk, risk-taking, sick, soulmates, true-love, vow, vows, waiting, waiting-for-true-love 809 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: heartbreak, integrity, love 802 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
tags: behrendt, dating, greg, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, truth 798 likes like
Simone Elkeles
“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens
tags: kissing, love, romance 2257 likes like
Toni Morrison
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison
tags: emotion, love, self-respect, value 1575 likes like
Anaïs Nin
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anaïs Nin
tags: dreams, life, love 1571 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: clary, clary-and-jace, humor, jace, jace-and-clary, love 1521 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: love 1335 likes like
Suzanne Collins
“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
tags: life, love, survival, ya, young-adult 1177 likes like
Emily Dickinson
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson
tags: love, morning 1035 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: love 1010 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
tags: inspirational, love 961 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
tags: breath, breathing, cold, commitment, devotion, dying, exhale, love, lovers, meaning, passion, romance, romantic 879 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order?”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
tags: beauty, cashier, confusion, daydreaming, delusional, fantasy, funny, humor, love, thought 848 likes like
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind 845 likes like
Michelle Hodkin
“What would you do if I kissed you right now?"
I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
tags: beautiful, couples, hot, kiss, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya 813 likes like
David Levithan
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
tags: friendship, love, reflection, trust 807 likes like
Truman Capote
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
"She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me.
"Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: And Three Stories
tags: love, wildness 800 likes like
Patrick Ness
“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
tags: control, love, strength, weakness 800 likes like
William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
tags: love, poetry 798 likes like
Wm. Paul Young
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
tags: love 794 likes like
Kate DiCamillo
“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
tags: leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation 788 likes like
أحمد خالد توفيق
“تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق
tags: children, love, women 784 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: love, obsession 781 likes like
J.K. Rowling
“After all this time?"
"Always...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
tags: love 772 likes like
Victor Hugo
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."
She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--
"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
tags: goodbye, kiss, love 771 likes like
Alexandre Dumas
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
tags: love, women, worship 766 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
tags: becca-fitzpatrick, fallen-angels, hush-hush, love, nora-grey, patch-cipriano 766 likes like
Ana Castillo
“I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do”
― Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible: Poems
tags: love 746 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: love, romance 745 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You
tags: call, dating, dating-advice, guys, love, marriage, romance, truth 745 likes like
Margery Williams
“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
tags: acceptance, ageing, authenticity, becoming, being-loved, being-real, love 738 likes like
Lauren Oliver
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
tags: dating, julia-romano, love, unrequited 1441 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”
― Nicholas Sparks
tags: love, romance 1235 likes like
Bell Hooks
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
― Bell Hooks
tags: abuse, commitment, love, men, relationships, women 1009 likes like
Amy Sedaris
“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
tags: advice, affairs, dating, jewelry, life, love, men, relationships, romance, women 912 likes like
Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
tags: love 888 likes like
Demi Lovato
“He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.”
― Demi Lovato
tags: being-loved, life, love, true-love 884 likes like
Salvador Plascencia
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
tags: longing, love, sadness 869 likes like
Tahereh Mafi
“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.
I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
tags: love 863 likes like
Simone Elkeles
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
tags: ammends, atonement, love 863 likes like
Dalai Lama XIV
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind 856 likes like
George Gordon Byron
“In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears”
― George Gordon Byron
tags: love 852 likes like
G.K. Chesterton
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: enemies, love, neighbors 849 likes like
Mitch Albom
“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
tags: change, love, time 847 likes like
Drew Barrymore
“Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”
― Drew Barrymore
tags: courtship, kissing, love, romance 842 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
tags: hope, love, personal-growth, romance 840 likes like
Emily Giffin
“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
tags: baby-proof, claudia, emily-giffin, love 839 likes like
Mahatma Gandhi
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power 836 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: eternal-questions, love, power 834 likes like
George Bernard Shaw
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
tags: food, gluttony, love 826 likes like
Dorothy Parker
“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth 820 likes like
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: love 820 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
tags: fragility, love, vulnerability 819 likes like
Julie Kagawa
“You are my heart, my life, my entire existence."
-Ash”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
tags: ash, iron-fey-trilogy, julie-kagawa, love 817 likes like
C.S. Lewis
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis
tags: god, inspirational, love 816 likes like
Nicole Krauss
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
tags: love, romance 813 likes like
Nicholas Sparks
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
tags: distance, love 809 likes like
Criss Jami
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
tags: art, beautiful, chances, commitment, commitments, courting, courtship, dating, divorce, faith, faithful, faithfulness, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, inspirational, lifetime, lifetime-truth, love, marriage, mates, paradox, patience, people, perfection, promise, promises, relationships, risk, risk-taking, sick, soulmates, true-love, vow, vows, waiting, waiting-for-true-love 809 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: heartbreak, integrity, love 802 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
tags: behrendt, dating, greg, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, truth 798 likes like
Simone Elkeles
“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens
tags: kissing, love, romance 2257 likes like
Toni Morrison
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison
tags: emotion, love, self-respect, value 1575 likes like
Anaïs Nin
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anaïs Nin
tags: dreams, life, love 1571 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: clary, clary-and-jace, humor, jace, jace-and-clary, love 1521 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: love 1335 likes like
Suzanne Collins
“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
tags: life, love, survival, ya, young-adult 1177 likes like
Emily Dickinson
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson
tags: love, morning 1035 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: love 1010 likes like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
tags: inspirational, love 961 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
tags: breath, breathing, cold, commitment, devotion, dying, exhale, love, lovers, meaning, passion, romance, romantic 879 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order?”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
tags: beauty, cashier, confusion, daydreaming, delusional, fantasy, funny, humor, love, thought 848 likes like
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind 845 likes like
Michelle Hodkin
“What would you do if I kissed you right now?"
I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
tags: beautiful, couples, hot, kiss, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya 813 likes like
David Levithan
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
tags: friendship, love, reflection, trust 807 likes like
Truman Capote
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
"She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me.
"Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: And Three Stories
tags: love, wildness 800 likes like
Patrick Ness
“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
tags: control, love, strength, weakness 800 likes like
William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
tags: love, poetry 798 likes like
Wm. Paul Young
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
tags: love 794 likes like
Kate DiCamillo
“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
tags: leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation 788 likes like
أحمد خالد توفيق
“تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق
tags: children, love, women 784 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: love, obsession 781 likes like
J.K. Rowling
“After all this time?"
"Always...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
tags: love 772 likes like
Victor Hugo
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."
She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--
"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
tags: goodbye, kiss, love 771 likes like
Alexandre Dumas
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
tags: love, women, worship 766 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
tags: becca-fitzpatrick, fallen-angels, hush-hush, love, nora-grey, patch-cipriano 766 likes like
Ana Castillo
“I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do”
― Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible: Poems
tags: love 746 likes like
Charlotte Brontë
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: love, romance 745 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You
tags: call, dating, dating-advice, guys, love, marriage, romance, truth 745 likes like
Margery Williams
“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
tags: acceptance, ageing, authenticity, becoming, being-loved, being-real, love 738 likes like
Lauren Oliver
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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