Top 100 Love Was Quotes
#1. Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.
Anna Carey
#2. All my life I thought love was supposed to be this amazing, wonderful feeling. I thought it was supposed to heal all wounds and conquer all. No one ever told me that it can leave a giant hole in your heart. No one ever mentioned that it could steal all the life away from you.
Jen Naumann
#3. Losing confidence was more violent than losing love. Losing love was a slow dying, but losing confidence was a quick coup, a floor that opened right up and swallowed.
Lorrie Moore
#5. We'd had to find each other to finally understand that love could not be controlled. Predictions, assumptions, and absolutes were illusions. My love for him was volatile, uncontrollable, and overpowering, but ... that was love. Love was real.
Jamie McGuire
#6. A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
Ann Brashares
#7. Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could not drown in a thing that shallow.
Darin Strauss
#8. Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.
Margaret Atwood
#9. When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.
Marilynne Robinson
#10. People never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.
Scott Nicholson
#11. Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
Ann Patchett
#12. There is already enough wars in this world. Love was not meant to be one of them, Save the ammunition.
Cody Solomon
#14. My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
Etgar Keret
#15. But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.
Lori Foster
#16. What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
#17. Love was overrated and nature used it to kick us in the gut and trick us into reproducing.
Georgia Cates
#18. Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky
Liane Moriarty
#19. They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.
Rosamund Hodge
#20. My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!
Arthur Japin
#21. Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,
the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible
A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.
Billy Graham
#22. The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Jorge Luis Borges
#23. Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.
Rabih Alameddine
#24. And love was creation's source,creation's ruler;
but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.
Knut Hamsun
#25. Love was a desperate thing, fierce and ferocious, capable of consuming a man like invisible fire
Judith McNaught
#26. What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept.
Richard Russo
#27. Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
Charles Williams
#28. To me, love was something a person gave up a piece of themselves for and never walked away from.
Kelly Moran
#29. Love was all about learning to speak a person's language.
Mia Sheridan
#31. Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#32. To Emily's mind, love was a virus. A disease. And there was no cure.
Nikki Sex
#33. The more you love her, the crazier you get. My love was great. My crimes were greater.
Holly Black
#34. When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.
Tori Kelly
#35. No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.
Harriet Evans
#36. I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.
Mona Simpson
#37. Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.
Daniel Handler
#38. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
E. M. Forster
#39. I closed my eyes tightly and hoped that love was enough.
Ruth Ahmed
#40. Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
K.P. Yohannan
#41. His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
William Wordsworth
#42. Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.
Alice Pung
#43. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration
Alice Munro
#44. And maybe that's what love was, giving someone the power to shatter you and trusting that they wouldn't.
Kandi Steiner
#45. If love was magic you wouldn't be amazed, you much rather look at reality in a daze. see love is merely a four letter phrase, It's here It's there it may never change. For love is a verb an action, a zing, It is never a person place or thing.
Aja Taylor
#46. Love was not a quantifiable substance. There was always more of it somewhere, and even after one love had been lost, it was by no means impossible to find another.
Paul Auster
#47. Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.
Jeffrey Archer
#49. It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.
Caroline Knapp
#50. Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.
Megan Hart
#51. Need was Adam's baseline, his resting pulse. Love was a privilege. Adam was privileged; he did not want to give it up. He wanted to remember again and again how it felt.
Maggie Stiefvater
#52. Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
Courtney Milan
#53. Maybe love was nothing more than finding someone who loved the exact things that you did.
Durjoy Datta
#54. Their love was so forbidden that their very touch could wrap a hangman's noose around them.
Victoria Sue
#55. When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.
Martina Boone
#56. I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
Janis Ian
#58. In that moment, I understood what love was. It was blind. It was deep. It was magical. Love protected, preserved, intensified, and was always steadfast.
Priya Kanaparti
#59. Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.
Neal Shusterman
#60. So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon.
Michael Grant
#61. She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough. But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right.
Hailey Abbott
#63. Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
A Meredith Walters
#64. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
Khaled Hosseini
#65. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.
Meghna Pant
#66. Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
Guillermo Del Toro
#67. I learned early on that love was treacherous, leaving my heart like an open wound for others to infect.
Maggie Young
#68. Love was like walking on the moon. A springy step in your heel like you had a heart for cushioning to step on until it burst and the blood floating in red pods among the glowing craters to be boiled into a refining mist in the naked, eternal sunlight.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#69. Not trust. There is none.
Not honesty. Honesty is a farce.
And definitely not love. Love was the greatest ruse of all. Designed to trap and enslave and ultimately destroy.
Elisabeth Naughton
#70. Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
Edward Caswall
#71. But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance:
J.K. Rowling
#72. Love was a pathway to cruel pain. It was the arrow that Fate always kept aimed at your back.
Jonathan Maberry
#73. This time I don't have enough time to pull back before he takes my hand. "You'll always be my love, that will never change. You'll always be the girl who became my whole heart when I barely understood what love was. I really thought we would make it until the end, you know? I hate that we didn't.
Tammy Faith
#74. Enacting love was a critical aspect of experiencing love. Devotion and ethics intertwined.
Diana Butler Bass
#75. For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion.
Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.
Robert Sheckley
#76. All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!".
Tyne O'Connell
#77. Perhaps fate brought us together,
And the incidents in between made us close,
Falling in love was a simple choice,
But breaking my heart, that was yours.
Tanzy Sayadi
#78. You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.
Alice Hoffman
#79. And wasn't that what love was all about? Not the immediate bone-melting lust and roller-coaster emotions, but the promise of it all lasting, mellowing into something that got stronger, better every year.
Jane Davitt
#80. I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.
Don Everly
#81. Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
Thomas Malory
#82. I would have done anything for Intisar. Her love was like three kebab meals to me, with tahini and hot peppers. I never took her for granted. Never.
G. Willow Wilson
#83. If love was Jesus's greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE, LIKE I DID FOR YOU!!! THAT IS CHRISTIANITY, SERVE THE POOR ...
Haggai Jeffers
#84. Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.
Michael Robotham
#85. If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being "in love" was only an idea, then you could liberate yourself from its tyranny
Jeffrey Eugenides
#87. Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal.
A.L. Jackson
#88. Love was more than a choice, more than a feeling, it was a commitment.
K.T. Bryan
#89. They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. At
Tim O'Brien
#90. love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.
Tillie Cole
#91. It was now so much a part of him, that it could not have been torn from him without destroying him almost entirely: as they say in surgery, his love was no longer operable.
Marcel Proust
#92. But as it turns out, love doesn't set us free - love keeps standing outside the jail on an endless candlelight vigil. So love? Yes, love was pain as well. Especially love.
Adrian Barnes
#93. Love died in the shadows, and it shouldn't cost so much to keep it in the sun. But as Trent would say, anything gotten cheap wouldn't last, so do what you need to do to be happy and deal with the consequences. That if love was easy, everyone would find it.
Kim Harrison
#94. [ ... ] love was not something that was simply there because you were born of the same blood, and it should never come with a fucking disclaimer.
Ella Frank
#96. Even though love was biting her in the ass. Oh, wait. That was Colin grasping her rear.
Lauren Blakely
#97. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree soul.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#98. Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.
Donna Freitas
#99. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.
K.A. Mitchell
#100. I thought love was about caring about someone day in and day out, about being there when it's fucking amazing, and still wanting to be there when it feels like crap. i thought it was about for ever' -will, calling romeo
Alexandra Potter
