Quotes About Inconvenient Love

#1. It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

N. T. Wright

#2. Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

Peter Kreeft

#3. Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

Gayle Forman

#4. Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Tom Stoppard

#5. Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

Iris Murdoch

#6. True love is the most inconvenient kind

Kiera Cass

#7. It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Agatha Christie

#8. Okay, you must have forgotten that I know when someone's lying-it's one of my special, freaky priestess gifts, remember-the one you love to use until it becomes inconvenient for you? You can try to throw me off, but even half truths ring false with me.

Amy A. Bartol

#9. Love doesn't make sense. Love happens when you least expect it. It's inconvenient, messy, and reckless, but that's the beauty of it. It isn't a decision; it's a promise - a promise to chase inconvenient, messy, and reckless love with someone who embraces the chaos with you." I

Monica James

#10. All life-changing love is inconvenient.

Timothy Keller

#11. Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

Celia Fremlin

#12. It tastes like life."
"What?"
"Rotten and strange and rich and way, way too strong.

Adam Gidwitz

#13. You are so inconvenient to my existence. That I can't even stand to look at you. I look at myself in the mirror. And you stare back. You are me and I am you. This inconvenient existence. One living, the other dying. You consume my existence. And I let you. 'Cause I love you.

Abria Mattina

#14. I longed to not withhold love when it was inconvenient to give it. Those faces [of her children] helped motivate me to want to know Jesus well, and to live near Him and listen to His Spirit as I walked in faith with my family.

Kara Tippetts

#15. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.

Ian McEwan

#16. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

Gayle Forman

#17. Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Hugo Weaving

#18. Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Jackson Browne

#19. Two things are always the same the dance and war.

Gertrude Stein

#20. It is natural for the immature to harm others.
Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

Shantideva

#21. I love you.' For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. 'Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.

Alexandra Bracken

#22. Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.

Alexis Hall

#23. We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Gloria Steinem

#24. Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.

William Shakespeare

#25. So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Lorrie Moore

#26. True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Kiera Cass

#27. Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

Mary E. Pearson

#28. To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#29. For devotees of doctrine tended to fall in love with their own righteousness, ignoring inconvenient facts.

Jon Meacham

#30. The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation
it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian McEwan