Idea Of Love Quotes

#1. The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone.

Kate Bolick

#2. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

Will Smith

#3. Maybe I was in love with the idea of love.

Shay Savage

#4. I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Roxane Gay

#5. My melancholy thoughts are back.
But I still love the idea of love.

Toni Morrison

#6. I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

Stevie Nicks

#8. The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

John Cassavetes

#9. There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.

Esha Gupta

#11. I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden
Until Della walked into my life I didn't understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I'd seen it once -Woods

Abbi Glines

#13. I believe that you wanted to love Marie - that you're enamored by the idea of love - but that you have no concept what love is. I think that's what you're searching for in St. Giles - some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#14. Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

#15. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.

Matthew J. Hefti

#16. I mean it's a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!

Anne Rice

#17. And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Alan Watts

#18. I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

Brooke Elliott

#19. Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

Nikki Reed

#20. I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

Orlando Bloom

#21. The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her.

Louis L'Amour

#22. A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soulmate. Rabih

Alain De Botton

#23. Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

Hector Berlioz

#24. I love the 'idea of love', but how does one practice it?
Says, one religion to another, one person to another, one soul to another!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#25. People don't like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don't love love - love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it's not emotive. Our culture doesn't love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it.

Matt Chandler

#26. As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Adora Svitak

#27. Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?

Milan Kundera

#28. Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

Ann Brashares

#29. Maybe I fell in love with the idea of love, but I'm a teenage girl. This morning I fell in love with raspberry jam and a puppy in a tiny raincoat. I'm not exactly Earth's top authority on the subject.

Leah Raeder

#30. you were in love with the idea of love, not me.

Amanda Lovelace

#31. When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

Elisabeth Rohm

#32. [Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Gloria Steinem

#33. The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

Aziz Ansari

#34. Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Andy Warhol

#35. But how could she explain that their crude idea of love didn't seem satisfying, and a good-looking husband wasn't all she wanted in life?

Melanie Dickerson

#36. I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

John Perry Barlow

#37. The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

H.A. Lamb

#38. No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Albert Camus

#39. I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we're so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don't come with a thunderbolt attached.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#40. Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love ...

Lauraine Snelling

#41. Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ...

Francoise Sagan

#42. I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

Diane Meier

#43. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Delia Sherman

#44. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Kate Bernheimer

#45. A scientist said, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

Halford Luccock

#46. I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Arne Glimcher

#47. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#48. I like the idea of someone else's love safely sealed in a song or a book.

Henry Rollins

#49. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.

Beau Taplin

#50. I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Nicki Minaj

#51. Yeah, take it from me. He may try to sell himself to you along with the company. And then there is Roberto, the CEO of our acquisition target. He also seems to be a bit of a flirt. Those two are like moths around a light bulb with you. Any idea how you would react if they both came after you?

Karynne Summars

#52. I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

Clare Balding

#53. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#54. I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Mary McDonnell

#55. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

#56. We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Francis Ford Coppola

#57. Jace is in love with the idea of dying, said Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

#58. There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

James Baldwin

#59. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

F. Murray Abraham

#60. We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love.

Fernando Pessoa

#61. I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship.

Rumi

#62. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

Zoe Bell

#63. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Sharon Salzberg

#64. I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

#65. I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

Sarah J. Maas

#66. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write.

Josh Lanyon

#67. I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love).

Mary Ann Shaffer

#68. Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#69. I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Jimmy Choo

#70. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

Carole Lombard

#71. The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#72. A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.

James Patterson

#73. Then there's those wizards on it, who must all be gifted hydrophobes - " "You mean they hate water?" said Twoflower. "No, that wouldn't work," said Rincewind. "Hate is an attracting force, just like love. They really loathe it, the very idea of it revolts them.

Terry Pratchett

#74. I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

John Legend

#75. I think people fall in love with the idea of it, but lust is what you fall into, and love can only grow from that,

River Savage

#76. I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Jeff Mangum

#77. Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

Karen Salmansohn

#78. I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'

Rob Reiner

#79. I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

Brad Listi

#80. You know, Rose, Mr. Louie's altogether my idea of what a gentleman should be. He's a little bit undersized, I know. But there! What's an inch or two when you love a man?

Countess Barcynska

#81. I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.

Rachel Maddow

#82. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

Heather O'Neill

#83. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Tommy Shaw

#84. do this to me, Art. Don't let me keep falling for you. Don't let me love you. Because everything I'd ever loved has a way of falling apart, and the idea of losing you is too much right now. Don't let me keep dreaming. Make me wake up.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#85. I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

Marco Brambilla

#86. I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

Carlton Cuse

#87. I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Natasha Tsakos

#88. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#89. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

Manoj Arora

#90. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#91. I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J.J. Abrams

#92. Whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

Elizabeth Bowen

#93. You know you're in love with someone when the idea of them being in love with someone else doesn't just wreck you, it invades every part of your being. Yet, how could I be upset that Gabe loved her? When his love for her was one of the very reasons I loved him? - Saylor

Rachel Van Dyken

#94. Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love. They never see the other person. I don't ask for much; I only ask to be seen.

C. JoyBell C.

#95. There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.

Astra Taylor

#96. I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

Mia Moretti

#97. Fall in love with me, not the idea of rescuing me.

Lisa Mantchev

#98. I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Heidi Julavits

#99. I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive ...
I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#100. I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

Cary Fukunaga