Love Letter Quotes

• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Writing, Mean

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• A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Men, Letters

  Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Tired, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

  Myrtle Reed

  Real, Letters, Ridiculous

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.90, tredition

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

  Curtis Jackson

  Writing, Unanswered Questions, Letters

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• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

  Samuel Lover

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.113

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• I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Letters, Pages

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Every letter was a love letter.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Letters

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• I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  White, Soul, Mind

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• If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mirrors, Letters, Rooms

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.54, BookBaby

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• I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Making A Difference

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• If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

  Mortimer Adler

  Love, Reading, Men

  "How to Speak How to Listen".

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• The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Mind, Letters

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.23, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Writing, Cookies

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• Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

  Mark Jenkins

  Inspirational, Travel, Maps

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• It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

  Henri de Regnier

  Love, Writing, Mistress

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• A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

  Art Spiegelman

  Suicide, Diaries, Letters

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. October 8, 2008.

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• Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

  Mary Schmich

  Letters, Old Love, Sunscreen

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Writing, Yarn

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• All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Laughing, Doe

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• There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Writing, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

  Damian Conway

  Writing, Self, Documentation

  Damian Conway (2005). “Perl Best Practices”, p.153, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Truth, Real

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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