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“I am everything that my heart desires to be. I am a woman, an artist, a lover of life and most importantly, a woman living a purposeful life. I am thankful for the gift of life and the chance to do what I love”
Khabonina Qubeka (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not a meat lover, but when I do eat it, I love me some wet-fried chicken any day, any time.”
Cindy Sanyu (born 1985) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW: Cindy ready to shine at Roast and Rhyme, By Matooke Republic, retrieved on February 18, 2024
“In the hour of death, after this life’s whim, When the heart beats low, and the eyes grow dim, And pain has exhausted every limb— The lover of the Lord shall trust in Him. For even the purest delight may pall, And power must fail, and the pride must fall, And the love of the dearest friends grow small— But the glory of the Lord is all in all.”
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900) first seen 1058 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dominus Illuminatio Mea", sts. 1 and 4. Anonymous in Q's OBEV (1900) p. 1058, no. 883. Attributed in Notes and Queries, 11th s., vol. 10 (26 December 1914) p. 513
“Luisa Casati masterfully played the "femme fatale," hypnotizing men with her bold balance of the black abyss of her gaze and the white of her nudity. But she ruined no lover. No one committed suicide on her doorstep. Aside from the never-ending affair with il Poet, her love affairs remained on the fringes of her exceptional existence. (p. 33)”
Giuseppe Scaraffia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But isn’t that life too? I’m an incredible life lover, that’s why I do and create so much. I love every single bit of my job…and this is just the beginning. Wait and see.”
Xenia Tchoumitcheva (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't have to drink tonight. Why don’t we just get some sleep? 'Cause I'm tired of cryin’ in driveways As you slur the words you speak. I know growin' up Has been an evil thing to you. Makes you awfully hard to love From a lover's point of view.”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I ain't spotless, neither is you. For once in my life, I'm gonna see it through. If you want spotless, I'll always losе, I don't want love, lover, I want the truth.”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a lover, I like to love, I like to give a lot of myself and all of myself to somebody you know.”
Zolisa Xaluva (born 1981) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zolisa Xaluva opens up about relationship status BONA (retrieved 18 November 2025)
“They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a Lover produce?”
Shahram Shiva wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a nature lover so the moment you’re in touch with nature, and you love cooperating with nature and surrendering yourself to the forces of nature, you already have an advantage. You realize you are not the center of the world. You are not always in control.”
Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1955–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roberto Vecchioni is a betrayed lover, which is why he said that phrase: his is an appeal for love, not an indictment of Sicily. There is beauty in Sicily; Sicily is beautiful. Of course, Vecchioni could have avoided generalising, but I am convinced that he already regrets having uttered those words. Long live the good and beautiful Sicily that exists.”
Pippo Baudo (1936–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The words her father had said to her, echoed over and over in her memory — "Love generously, wisely, and without haste!" She thought that wisdom was in the simple joy of her lover’s eyes; about generosity Freya did not think at all — for those who practise it never weigh it — but the word "haste" she blotted out of her mind.”
Phyllis Bottome (1882–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.”
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All mankind love a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Wisdom consists not only in becoming detached from the reflections, but also in knowing and feeling that the archetypes are to be found within ourselves and are accessible in the depths of our hearts; we possess what we love to the extent that what we love is worthy of being loved.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I mean that to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people," Paul says. "That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We loved each other. No faithfulness my love did lack. Love, you divine flame; you hole of colour: black.”
Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never wrong enough to find the word befitting it.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) first seen 1190 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Archived from the …
“Time carries him as the river carries A leaf in the downstream water. No matter. The enchanted one insists And shapes God with delicate geometry. Since his illness, since his birth, He goes on constructing God with the word. The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baruch Spinoza", as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Also quoted by: Baruch Spinoza
“Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's We were so much at one. But O, in a minute she changed-- O do not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song.”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You finally fell in love, I see," said Salo. "Only an Earthling year ago," said Constant. "It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First thing I remember when you came into my life I said I wanna get that girl, no matter what I do Well I guess I've been in love before and once or twice have been on the floor But I've never loved no-one the way that I love you.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, your father and Bartolo They have fallen And yesterday they fought and fell But in the quest for joy and freedom And in the struggle of this life you'll find That there is love and sometimes more Yes, in the struggle you will find That you can love and be loved alsoForgive me all who are my friends I am with you I beg of you, do not cry”
Joan Baez (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morn shall meet noon While the flower-stems yet move, Though the wind dieth soon And the clouds fade above. Loved lips are thine As I tremble and hearken; Bright thine eyes shine, Though the leaves thy brow darken. O Love, kiss me into silence, lest no word avail me, Stay my head with thy bosom lest breath and life fail me! O sweet day, O rich day, made long for our love!”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
“I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world. It's also the only thing that can bring us salvation. And it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.”
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wheaton, Illinois (September 15, 1990)
“I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast … love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?”
Julie Andrews (born 1935) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Photoplay (September 1973)
“Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Manhood stands tall and high, and becomes madness; The self takes leave of being and becomes ecstasy. When iron sated with blood embraces love, It turns into a bewildered sitar string. When time robs man of love and the loved one, He sees the beloved’s glory and his own. How man sprouts when he sits down in dust!”
Ghani Khan (1914–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in. (Gwenhwyfar).”
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. It is the law and no statute can alter it. If we do not follow the law, and let the law die with the teacher, we shall become accomplices to the murderer. But if follow the law with our hearts, [Bapu] will live with us and through us.”
C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rajagopalachari (12 February 1949), quoted in
“In succeeding to the throne of Mysore, I follow a great ruler who loved you all, and who won your love by his love of God, by his wisdom, his graciousness, his humility, his faithfulness to his duty and his Kingly greatness; ...called upon people to ‘consecrate themselves in the spirit of unity and self sacrifice.”
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love Albuquerque. I've always loved it, and i just couldn't leave it. I don't know if it sounds right, but I think people love that, I'm not going to turn my back on them. I want to be here.”
Al Hurricane (1936–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was never glamorous. I was always a little rock 'n' roll and a little funky and all of that. I didn't care about being glamorous and all of that. I just loved the freedom that I had and I enjoyed the work and the band and all of that. That was the love. That truly was the love at the time.”
Tina Turner (1939–2023) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tina Turner: My Love Story, Part 1", Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations Podcast (17 October 2018)
“I don't think I'll ever find anyone I'll love as much as I loved Elvis. It's pointless trying to compare him to anyone. Yes, some men I've been with have mattered to me, but Elvis was my first love, he'll be my last.”
Priscilla Presley (born 1945) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Elvis Presley, "Elvis hated rules and Lisa Marie is just like him", The Sunday Times (London, September 23, 2012)
“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing,”
Jim Belushi (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Rick Kogan. "Belushis: Funny is in their bones: Jim, son Robert and stand-up Kyle Lane team up to create intimate Comedy Bar on Ontario Street," in: The Chicago Tribune, October 26, 2012.
“What if God did not have first to be, since he loved us first, when we were not? And what if, to envisage him, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress ourselves in risking to love love.”
Jean-Luc Marion (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I never told the boy who didn’t love me, the boy I was trying to make love me when I didn’t yet know that you cannot nice your way into being loved.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein.”
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter by Jeffrey Epstein to sex offender Larry Nassar dated August 13, 2019, 3 days after Epstein's death "Epstein Claimed Trump 'Shares Our Love' In Letter To Larry Nassar", WBZ NewsRadio (December 23, 2025)
“In some ways. I do want to do something very different with each book…I think this book is linked to the first but approaches it in a completely different way. The first book was much chillier, more remote. And intentionally so. I don’t think it was a book that anyone loved and I didn’t love it either. It was not a book that was meant to inspire love in the way that I think this one is.”
Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how she compares her works The People in the Trees and A Little Life in “Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I wanted everything turned up a little too high’” in The Guardian (2015 Jul 26)
“Every time I went down the aisle, I was totally, 100 percent in love. I loved being in love. And the downside was, I really was attracted to men very opposite from myself. You know, that old story. You know, if you're warm, they're cold. If you're a hard worker, maybe they're lazy. If you were realist, they're a pessimist?...”
Betsey Johnson (born 1942) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her three marriages in “Betsey Johnson Talks Fashion, Love And Motherhood In Self-Titled Memoir” in NPR (2020 Apr 19)
“A government serves people, and when a government delivers services, they are delivering them to real people. These are people who live, people who laugh, who cry. These are people who suffer, who yell out in pain, who love and are loved. These are the people we love.”
Bowinn Ma (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'From seven years old, from day one of the abuse, Michael told me that we loved each other and this was love, this was an expression of our love.'”
Wade Robson (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are here for the love of your family and friends. You need to keep speaking. Don't stop. Don’t give up. Don't give up on the love. Don't give up on your loved ones.”
Edmund Whalen (born 1958) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Don’t give up,’ NY bishop urges survivors of Hamas attack, families of hostages (27 December 2023) Our Sunday Visitor
“If you love this country as much as I love this country, and you're willing to die for this country, like I was willing to die for this country, we can find a way to work with each other. But I will tell you that it's not always that easy. I don't think Donald Trump, for example, loved this country. And that made it hard to work with him”
Tammy Duckworth (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source