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“We loved in infinite spaces, forgetting here The breasts that were lit with life and the lips so near; Till the wizard willows waved in the wind and drew Me away from the fulness of love and down to you.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower!”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. II, No. 13, I Have Loved Flowers That Fade, st. 1 (1879).
“I loved you before that. I love you now. I’m just an unconscionable bastard, and I used you, that’s all. Now I regret it.”
Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lost my father when I was 13-years-old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.”
Preity Zinta (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves. (p66)”
Witi Ihimaera (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always wanted her to say, "I love you, I’ll stand by you, you are very important to me," but she never did. She loved me inside, but I didn’t feel it.”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catherine Deveney, "Stripped bare", The Scotsman, (2004-03-14)
“If tomorrow never comes, Will she know how much I loved her? Did I try in every way to show her every day That she's my only one? And if my time on earth were through, And she must face the world without me, Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to last? If tomorrow never comes.”
Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always thought when I got older that I'd be jealous of my children but I'm not. It's the opposite. I love seeing their possibilities. Nothing makes me as happy as sitting at dinner with loved ones, having a glass of wine with a meal that I've cooked. What could be better?”
John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.”
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.”
Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It seems to me that truth has taken its place again in our little room, and become incarnate; that the greatest bond which can bind two beings together is being confessed, the great bond we did not know of, though it is the whole of salvation: "Before, I loved you for my own sake; to-day, I love you for yours.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whisky, or your religion? Your tea, or your religion? Which would you shake hands with and bid good-bye for ever-your coffee, or your religion? I should think I had disgraced the man that stands before you this day, if I loved any object on the earth better than I love my religion and my God.”
Brigham Young (1801–1877) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal of Discourses 8:140 (August 5, 1860)
“I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.”
James Herriot (1916–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had that Paul McKenna come up to me once and he said, 'I love that song of yours about bicycles.' So I said to McKenna, 'And I loved the stunt you did in that glass box above the Thames.'”
KT Tunstall (born 1975) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: contactmusic.com quote (24 August 2007)
“Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.”
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.”
John Barlas (1860–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.”
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things...”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”
Ken MacLeod (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all want a simple song. We all want to get along. We all want to just belong. We all want to know right from wrong. We all want to love and be loved strong.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always when we walked, it was clear to me how much he loved nature, wild flowers, animals in their natural habitat and the simple pleasures of a beautiful sunset. My love for the environment did not develop out of a vacuum.”
Lewis Pugh (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.”
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his daughter, Nastassja, as quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
“Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.”
Max Scheler (1874–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 94
“I suppose my mega heroes are the films of Michael Powell and Sam Peckinpah. I would have loved to have looked over their shoulder. I’m a bit of a cinephile. I love cinema. It’s an amazing medium. I can go and watch anything from very, very arty films to huge Hollywood spectaculars and everything in between.”
Olly Blackburn (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And their love life got better with time. Familiarity bred excitement. They loved discovering those little things, the touch, that made the other respond with a quiver or a sigh, and, in turn, having the discovery made.”
Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The breaking and crushing were gone, and the love pushed inside his chest, and when he cried now, it was because she loved him so much. (p211)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read poetry all the time. Probably the poets everybody read then. Very catholic taste. I even loved Eliot then whom I later grew not to love. I knew lots of poems by memory and walked around mumbling them. Yeats, Rilke, Keats, Coleridge. I liked Milton a lot, for some reason. And then there were the Oscar Williams anthologies of 1942 and 1943 with those pictures of the beautiful young poets.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My marriage brought great happiness into my life, but lately there's been nothing but sadness. I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can't be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the tradeoff is fair. A man should die as he had lived, I think; in his final moments, he should be surrounded and comforted by those he's always loved.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While we spoke of many things Fools and kings This he said to me: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.”
Eden ahbez (1908–1995) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nature Boy" (1948)
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mossadeq made the crowds laugh and cry. He confirmed their prejudices and superstitions and flattered their vanities - they were, in most cases, all they had left. They loved him, but did he love them? No one could know for sure.”
Amir Taheri (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My wife bought me the book Snow Crash and said, 'You're going to love this' ... In fact, he loved it so much, he wanted to build a virtual world based on it.”
Philip Rosedale (born 1968) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Laura Sydell, "Sci-Fi Inspires Engineers To Build Our Future," Weekend Edition Saturday, 8/21/2010
“I told you about my Mexican baby-sitter when I was three. I think I was in love with that little Mexican girl, she was wonderful, she really made me happy! She used to suck me to sleep for my nap every afternoon. I loved it!”
David Berg (1919–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I come from the stage so being involved with such a gigantic film was just a new thing for me which I really loved. And for sure I would love to do something like this again. There's lots of things that have opened up for me. I'll just make sure I'll make the wisest decisions because this is a very delicate moment. And someday I will go back to the stage because that's where I feel at home.”
Silvia Colloca (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your baby grows a tooth, then two, and four, and five, then she wants some meat directly from the bone. It's all over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet talker on his way to jail. And you, your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue nothing. You did, you loved, your feet are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall.”
Thomas Lux (1946–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.”
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) said by 1549 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p. 53:
“There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.”
Dan Simmons (1948–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things – enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.”
Barbara Pym (1913–1980) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane and Prudence (1953), chapter 7
“At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna Loved her for the last time and left. . . That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt So dead that he asked, What is wrong, Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said, Not not at all, but thought, What is It to the corpse if the maggots nip?”
Kamala Surayya (1934–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was not the fashion for politicians who aspired to elective office to live ostentatiously, no matter how much money they had. If they loved luxury—and most of them did—they indulged that love in ways less publicly obvious than by living in mansions. The public believes what it thinks it sees.”
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.”
Bonaventure (1221–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first things I ever noticed and loved about reading is that words can get through all kinds of barriers; they can get through skin color and culture. It's so easy to read and go through all kinds of struggles with an author. I love the way, when we read, we actually take on the mind of the person that we're reading. (1990)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s tricky to write about your hometown the same way it’s tricky to write about your family: sometimes you are so close that you can’t see them properly. And it’s hard to be emotionally honest, as well. I loved—and love—Shaker Heights, so I want to portray it lovingly. At the same time, it has its faults like any community, and I wanted to try and be clear-eyed about that. (2017)”
Celeste Ng (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These fathers, boyfriends, and husbands were all men we loved, and were worthy of love. As peoples we had been broken. We were still in the bloody aftermath of a violent takeover of our lands. Within a few generations we had gone from being nearly one hundred percent of the population of this continent to less than one-half of one percent. (p158)”
Joy Harjo (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did not do it because I wanted to one day have a book deal…I did it because I loved it, and I enjoyed it, and I did not know where it was going to take me. I did it out of love of the art.”
Imbolo Mbue (born 1981) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why she wrote Behold the Dreamers in “Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of the American Dream” in Lit Hub (2017 Jun 1)