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“If you're a lover, you've got to be a fighter, 'cause if you don't fight for your love, what kind of love do you have?”
Keanu Reeves (born 1964) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in an Interview with Drew Barrymore, December 2021
“Well, when I was in nursery school, I was a lover. I’m not going to mention names but I was in love with two girls in my class. I swear it was love at first sight.”
Mr Eazi (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is best when mixed with anguish. In our town, we won't call you a Lover if you escape the pain. Look for Love in this way, welcome it to your soul, and watch you spirit fly away in ecstasy.”
Shahram Shiva wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, And makes the very hills to dance with joy! O Lover, ’twas love that gave life to Mount Sinai When it quaked and Moses fell down in a swoon. Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips I too, like the flute would burst out in melody.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise. . . . You shall not know her — she who sat Unconscious in my heart all time I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme, And loved and did not blush thereat.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And thus the soul pities God and feels itself pitied by him; loves Him and feels loved by Him, sheltering its misery in the bosom of the eternal and infinite misery, which, in eternalizing itself and infinitizing itself, is the supreme happiness itself.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's your quote: "Thomas Pynchon loved this book, almost as much as he loves cameras!" Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!”
Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playing himself (depicted with a paper bag over his head) on The Simpsons, "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" (January 25, 2004)
“I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!" "You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you." Slowly, he shook his head. "If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?" "You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you." "She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.”
Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sun-flower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have had no such experience, but imaging that to be loved by a woman one loves is a great happiness.”
Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one is ordained it is not for oneself but for the service of a people. When one loves people, when one is loved by Christ, becoming a priest is a beautiful route to take.”
Hervé Jean Robert Giraud (born 1957) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A seminarian needs good relational skills (9 December 2016) La Croix
“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.”
James M. Cain (1892–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that With women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved.”
Arnold Haultain (1857–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always loved to serve. I know that anybody who loves this state must think about the state first before himself. I agree that we haven’t got the best yet. I am going to run for one reason: Having been involved in the Benue project, I know what the people want.”
Terhemba Shija (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since we parted, yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,—thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love Fancies", in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (London: Chapman & Hall, 1867), p. 111.
“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be far easier to go, 'Oh, I wish I loved women,' but I don't. I love the way a man thinks. I love the way a man smells. I love the way men look. And I'm hooked on the male physique—hooked on it.”
Nicole Kidman (born 1967) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy magazine, Playboy interview, February 2005.
“I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heal the Kids" speech at the Oxford Union (2001)
“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The healer must love the sufferer as his [surrogate] mother and be loved in return by the sufferer as his [surrogate] mother. For the ultimate healing is knowing the Love of one's own mother... However, only when the surrogate role is kept firmly in mind can the Love be true, be altruistic.”
John Diamond (doctor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do your best to preserve the unity, and love among you. It's the most precious treasure of our archdiocese. With the love that already exists among us, love Mgr. Peter as you have loved me.”
Joseph Ngô Quang Kiệt (born 1952) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Archbishop Joseph Ngo explains his resignation (13 May 2010) VietCatholic News
“Remembrance clamoured in him: 'She was wild and free, Magnificent in giving; she was blind To gain or loss, and, loving, loved but me, — but me!”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.”
Émile Zola (1840–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pt. 5, ch. 1 / Ch. 20 (tr. Jean Stewart, 1957)
“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Michael Jackson: Elizabeth Taylor Honors her good friend" by Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly (26 June 2009)]
“I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return,”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was this perhaps life, then?—to have loved one summer in youth and not to have been aware of it until it was over, some sea-wet footprints on the floor and sand in the prints, the fragrance of a woman, soft loving lips in the dusk of a summer night, sea birds; and then nothing more; gone.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 291. (1922)
“The sun shone on: the shade of the awning vanished in the hot, white, shadowless midday. In that blaze of heat I was loving Paris as never before. And there sitting opposite me, stretching himself luxuriously in the sun, his eyes lazily examining his half-empty drink, was Larry, the one I loved the best … sensationally uninterested.”
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ultimate reciprocity, loving and being loved in return.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember loving Chato’s Kitchen by Gary Soto and Susan Guevara; I couldn’t believe that there was a book in the library about people from el barrio (actually cats, mice, and dogs), dressed, speaking, cooking, and having a family life that resembled mine. These books—and countless others—are the reason why I started making my own books (handmade at first, to emulate the books I loved)”
Yuyi Morales (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved you too deeply to ever take it back. And if this was wrong, I’d still do it again. Because loving you was mine. And it made me real.”
Kiminou Knox (born 2006) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They've been so supportive and loving, and I want to give back. I gain self-esteem by thinking, I want them to be proud of me, when fans see my stage performances and contents. Being loved is what drives me. Without that mindset, I wonder if I'd be moving this far.”
Jisoo (born 1995) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Me Time: After a year in preparation mode, Jisoo is ready to shine even brighter". Harper's Bazaar Australia. April 2025.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Laozi (misattributed) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The earliest book the quote could be found is Lightning by Dean Koontz from 1988. He accredited it to Lao Tzu, giving no source.
“Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesu, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art, Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.”
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymn IX" of "Hymns for those that seek and those who have redemption in the blood of Jesus Christ", in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley Vol 4. (1868), edited by G Osborn, p. 219
“Oh let thy fear within me dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside.”
James Merrick (1720–1769) said by 1769 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sacred Poets of England and America For Three Centuries" printed 1848.
“Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love middow”
Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On playing the role of the mother of an autistic child; Evening Standard (London); Nov 16, 2005; Liz Jones; p. 34
“Get me a drink, or I'll tell you I love you. I'll wake you up in an hour or two, crooning, all sloppy and maudlin, tell you I love you really. You'd like that, right? Hearing Momma tell you she loves you? Isn't that what you want, deep inside?”
Arthur M. Jolly (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To trust God, as seen in the face of His Son, and to believe that He loves us, that is faith, that is what we must do to be saved. And to love God, as seen in the face of His Son, and to seek to testify our love by our whole life, — that is Christian duty; that is all we have to do.”
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won. The warm-handled racket is back in its press, But my shock-headed victor, she loves me no less.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source