Words Love Quotes - Page 4

• And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

  Mary Balogh

  Breathing, Shade, Language

  Mary Balogh (2004). “Slightly Dangerous”, p.48, Delacorte Press

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• Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fate, Romance, Luck

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

  Colum McCann

  People, Way, Use

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.196, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

  Javan

  Pain, Love You, Knows

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• Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strong, Stars

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.10, Random House

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• For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Struggle, Endless Time

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

  Jandy Nelson

  Mouths, Fit

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

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• You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.

  David Levithan

  Clever, Boys, Love Is

  "John Green and David Levithan". Interview with Kate Pritchard, bookpage.com. April 2010.

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• The word love is never mentioned in big business.

  Anita Roddick

  Love Is, Bigs, Big Business

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• A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Letters, Handful

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• We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Father, Tired

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• I'm not at ease with the word "love."

  David Bowie

  Ease

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.36, Melville House

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• The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Sound, Mouths

  Journal, Feb. 1851

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• Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love Is, Judging, Hardship

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• Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

  Robert Cormier

  Mean, People, Affection

  "Tenderness".

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• Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!

  Anne Frank

  Baby, Love You, Caring

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• On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.

  Genevieve

  Heart, Mind, Levels

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• An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
  It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  Love, Self, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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