Quotes About Love Anyway

#1. What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.

Charlie Kaufman

#2. How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

Libba Bray

#3. The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions ...

Ron Hall

#4. I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs ... well, so be it.

Carol Emshwiller

#5. Even though it can be hopeless, or unhealthy, or just stupid, we love anyway. Because that's what love is. Choosing to give it, especially when you shouldn't.

Kelsey Sutton

#6. Feel the joy and love anyway, stress will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Because I think that's what love is- everything but children's love, anyway - loving the wounds we give each other, and that we can't help giving each other; you can't stay alive if you don't hurt people.

J.R. Salamanca

#8. What is love anyway but a hunger no meal can satisfy?

Kameron Hurley

#9. The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#10. Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

Bonnie Raitt

#11. The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.

Ruth Ann Nordin

#12. Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know - not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.

Margaret Mitchell

#13. What was true love, anyway? What did the fabric of it feel like? Rough? Smooth? Velvety soft? Would she recognize it immediately, or would she have to browse awhile? Would true love fit her perfectly or be like a store-bought gown in need a alterations?

Andrea Boeshaar

#14. The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

Richard Yates

#15. No one knows who anyone else really is. We're just getting the outside version. It's all about love, anyway.

Art Hochberg

#16. Hearts don't realize they've been lied to. They still love anyway.

Abbi Glines

#17. And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

Jude Morgan

#18. Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Kathleen Norris

#19. Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

Bryant McGill

#20. We don't actually want our young people to encounter the mysteries of love anyway; best to keep them preoccupied with the tedium of lust instead. The

Anthony Esolen

#21. What was love, anyway, but a mutated form of lust?

Suzanne Brockmann

#22. Connections between people were temporary. Selfish. Opportunistic. Designed to perpetuate the species. "Love"
romantic love, anyway
was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.

Wendy Wunder

#23. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Hill

#24. Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Sammy Hagar

#25. Apparently there was such a thing as love at first sight; or love at first spit, anyway.

Kristin Cashore

#26. Were all bastards but God loves us anyway.

William Campbell

#27. I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Ariana Grande

#28. In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.

Julian Fellowes

#29. That's just it, Calliope. I'm not going anywhere. Not long-term, anyway. I'm exactly where I love to be.

Kristen Proby

#30. Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

Shirley Maclaine

#31. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.

Maha Erwin

#32. It is necessary to fall in love ... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

#33. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.

S.R. Crawford

#34. Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Robert Breault

#35. Austin cupped her face then sighed. "I'm so glad you came into the shop that morning."

"You were an asshole, but I love you anyway."

"Legs, I'm still an asshole, but I love you too.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#36. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

E.B. White

#37. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.

Mary Ann Rivers

#38. Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!

Nehali Lalwani

#39. Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you're given. If not, what's it all for anyway?

Megan Mitcham

#40. I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.

Max Barry

#41. We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

Mary Steenburgen

#42. It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

Sarah Dessen

#43. I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Mary E. Pearson

#44. Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

Bernie Brillstein

#45. I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Loudon Wainwright III

#46. I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

Katheryn Winnick

#47. Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

Randy Travis

#48. I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway.

Patti Smith

#49. You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.

Layne Staley

#50. When you're saying something good in someway, you're not harming anyone in anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#51. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

#52. Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Rich Sommer

#53. Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

William Sadler

#54. I know there are no guarantees in love, in marriage, in life, in anything. But I want you anyway. I want you all the way. I want you exactly as you are.

Noelle Adams

#55. Let love destroy you. God knows life is going to anyway.

Seth King

#56. Why do people have to love people anyway?

Shirley Maclaine

#57. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

#58. Why? It's because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I've always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don't deserve you, but I love you, anyway.

Julia Quinn

#59. Sii la mia schiava d'amore," I purr.
Her expression is guarded. "What did you say?"
An amused smile pulls at my lips. "I'll never tell." Somehow, I don't think she'd agree to be my love slave anyway.

Lisa Desrochers

#60. Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.

Wayne Coyne

#61. When you love what you do, you tend to work harder anyway

Donald Trump

#62. Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

Ann Rinaldi

#63. Love is not about feeling safe and secure; it's about scaring the pressure out of yourself but pushing forward anyway, because you know it's worth it.

Auliq Ice

#64. No I'm going to hold you anyway
And I'll do it without shaking
Yes I'll love you always
And I'll do it without aching
Yes I'd give you anything
Yes I'd give you anything
I gave you everything

Tegan Quin

#65. He was still in love with you, anyway.

Lauren Oliver

#66. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?

John Green

#67. Forty years ago my mother died," he said. "She captured by Comanches, nine years old. Love Indian and wild life so well, no want to go back to white folks. All same people anyway, God say. I love my mother.

S.C. Gwynne

#68. My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#69. To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

Nora Ephron

#70. Don't cry,nyonda," he murmured.
Phillipa took a deep breath. "What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?"
His green gaze held hers. "It's Swahili. It means 'beloved.'" A small smile touched his mouth, and he brushed her cheek again. "You do know I love you, Phillipa. To an alarming degree.

Suzanne Enoch

#71. Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#72. We anyway have to THINK
Why not think BIG
We anyway have to WORK
Why not do what we LOVE

Mala Mary Martina

#73. I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make them good people, and you'd undo it anyway, and they'd love you and hate me.

Gillian Flynn

#74. What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Mary Gaitskill

#75. Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?
Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, How's your marriage going? Still have sex?

Helen Fielding

#76. And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.

Nadege Richards

#77. I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Suzanne Collins

#78. When you are honest, loving, and kind people may think that you are weak, naive, and a fool but be loving, kind, and honest anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

David Chalmers

#80. Love sees the thorns but cherishes the rose anyway.

Jeffrey Fry

#81. I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

Lorene Scafaria

#82. Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

Sheila Walsh

#83. You're beautiful and charming, and I can't stop thinking about last night." No, he
didn't say that. Not exactly, anyway. What Sarah heard was, "Hey - how are you?

Nicholas Sparks

#84. If you are uncertain or in confusion don't take any decisions. If you feel you can do something just feel it and do it.
you cannot justify your actions that you do for others when you are unstable.
People will feel for something all the time and you cannot make them happy anyway...

Giridhar Alwar

#85. Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?

Julie Johnson

#86. I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

Kristin Armstrong

#87. Would it be so terrible, sweet Cyn?" he whispered. "To spend eternity at my side?" But she was too far gone in sleep, and Raphael didn't know if he wanted to hear her answer anyway.

D.B. Reynolds

#88. The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

Jennifer Gilmore

#89. Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

Mary Balogh

#90. Love seems like such a simple thing to ask for. Such a basic right. It takes no skill, no experience, no money, no education, nothing
it can happen to anyone.
But it doesn't happen to everyone.
Even though everyone, deep down, wants it.
Anyway, I do.

Beth Harbison

#91. I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

Victoria Moran

#92. Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.

Walter Mosley

#93. Anyway, I'm done with God."
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?

David James Poissant

#94. I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

Martin Freeman

#95. God's love is unchangeable; He knows exactly what we are and loves us anyway.

Billy Graham

#96. Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. It's all temporary anyway. Next lifetime you will do it differently anyway, so why not do it differently right now?

Louise L. Hay

#97. Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?

Maggie Nelson

#98. I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

Amy Winehouse

#99. Some people don't deserve your time and attention. Love them anyway.

Mensah Oteh

#100. I think that's the way it is," he says after a minute. "When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart; a real punch in the heart." He shrugs and laughs softly to himself. "Anyway, that's what I felt.

Rick Yancey