This Isn't Love Quotes

#1. This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like.

Amanda Grace

#2. The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn't afraid to use it.

Tamara Hughes

#3. Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

Herta Muller

#4. Because this isn't the movies, Doc. In the real world, when a seventeen-year-old guy gets a love letter from his best friend, he doesn't suddenly decide to love her back. He runs screaming.

Aimee L. Salter

#5. When we delight in something, we declare our delight. When we adore someone, we announce our adoration. Isn't this, then, the essence of worship - lifting up with our lips and our lives the one we love above everything else?

David Platt

#6. You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.

David Levithan

#7. I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.

Melissa De La Cruz

#8. You're so much more than I deserve, than I dared to want. This isn't about saving me, is it? It's about saving you too.

K.L. White

#9. It isn't a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.

Richard Lessor

#10. Well, this is a tragic love story, isn't it? Alien invader falls for human girl. The hunter for his prey.

Rick Yancey

#11. To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#12. There is no way to find a logical way to deal with this when logic isn't involved.

Hope Irving

#13. No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

Kelle Groom

#14. There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

Saoirse Ronan

#15. And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

Jenny Han

#16. Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a federal law that says mothers are not allowed to laugh at vulnerable male children when they are required to wear stupid clothing to work?
There should be.

Ann Edwards Cannon

#17. There's this thing love stories always forget to mention. That love isn't a constant thing. Sometimes it changes, other times it fades completely. Sometimes you have to fall in love twice to truly understand it.

R.K. Ryals

#18. And as he looks at me, I suddenly get it. This isn't the Big Bang. It's just summer. But it's still love. It's still something.

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#19. Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure

Tao Lin

#20. Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.

Roland Barthes

#21. There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#22. Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered.
'No.'
'How do you know?'
'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.'
'Serious?'
'Serious. That isn't a line.'
'Kiss me,' she said.
He did. Everywhere.

Jenny Downham

#23. The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William S. Burroughs

#24. These days, no one seems to like anyone. Isn't this world we live in all about everyone ?

Will Leamon

#25. This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.

Elizabeth Chandler

#27. Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. It's a scary thought, isn't it? That every single person on this planet could lose their one true love and live to love again? It means the one you love could love again if they lost you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#29. No more apologies," he says. "I don't want you to think I'm holding something over you. I'm not. This isn't a favor. This is just love.

Heather Cocks

#30. A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

Jake Roberts

#31. Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

Pearl Cleage

#32. But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks away from where I would have been living in the alternate reality of accomplished love, the ghostly other life that haunted me for almost two full years.

Olivia Laing

#33. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

Billy Graham

#34. Wife," I say, staring straight into her eyes. "Think what you want, but there isn't a single woman in this whole damn universe that I could ever love like I love you.

Colleen Hoover

#35. This isn't the sort of love that ends," he said softly. "It's forever. It doesn't matter if you go to Phoenix and I stay here for a while. We'll find each other again. Do you know that, Savannah Carmichael?

Katy Regnery

#36. I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I'd date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn't what I want.

Haruki Murakami

#37. Good-bye. I'm sorry," I said.
"Don't be sorry." He stood straight, his chin proud and his shoulders relaxed. "This isn't over.

C.D. Reiss

#38. This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

C.J. Roberts

#39. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#40. Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

Michael Dirda

#41. What do I believe in? Imagination, gardens, science, poetry, love, and a variety of nonviolent consolations. I suspect that in this aggregate all this isn't enough, but that's where I am for now.

Teju Cole

#42. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Zack Love

#43. This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

Carroll Bryant

#44. That isn't fair." Her voice came out small, barely a whisper. "I didn't ask to be thrown into all this. I didn't ask to fall for a guy that isn't even human. It just happened and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next so if you have some magical guidebook, I'd love to borrow it.

Airicka Phoenix

#45. This is the truth, Kate. I don't understand why every man in the world isn't in love with you.

Noelle Adams

#46. This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#47. But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love - not for what they give you - but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. Now suddenly it isn't about what you're getting, but rather what you can give. This is unselfish love.

Yasmin Mogahed

#48. I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for the love of their life and never fining it, and we've got it and it isn't worth a damn to you.

Jodi Picoult

#49. The festive season isn't just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it's also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#50. I think about how we're too little, too young, too clumsy and messed up for this love, and I know it doesn't matter. Giving this up isn't anywhere even near the realm of possible. He's in my soul, and I'm in his. I have no idea what souls are made of, but his and mine are the same.

YellowBella

#51. Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [ ... ]
"I get that you're angry - ," said Patch.
"I am ripped apart!" I shouted.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#52. 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

#53. Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins?
Is Carthage Pompeii? is the pillow the bed? is the sun
What glues our heads together? O midnight! O midnight!

Kenneth Koch

#54. We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.

Joss Whedon

#55. This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Lisi Harrison

#56. Bye," he whispered to me.
"Bye."
Neither of us moved.
"Seriously? This isn't the Titanic, you'll see each other again," Bethan said to us.

J.J. McAvoy

#57. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

#58. Goodnight, child. This is a damn shame. Let's drop it out of the picture." He gave her two lines of hospital patter to go to sleep on. "So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That's an old-fashioned idea, isn't it?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#59. This isn't the girl I fell in love with. My sweet, giving, patient, loving, caring, fun-loving Skye disappeared when you were kidnapped. I'm so scared I'll never get her back.

J.L. McCoy

#60. It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I love it.

Richard Desmond

#61. Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

Yael Grobglas

#62. A Third's okay for a fuck, but not for a family. This isn't goddamned Big Love, Florida Fag Edition.

Tymber Dalton

#63. There are no refunds and no exchanges with love. It comes with flaws and imperfections. It's raw, unfiltered, and sometimes it isn't easy. But I've found the best things in this life are the ones I've had to work hardest for.

Helena Hunting

#64. Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

Caitlin Doughty

#65. I'm in love with you. This isn't a memory, but a promise, do you hear me?

Katie McGarry

#66. I like him a lot.... I think I might love him. And it obviously isn't everything, but being the way I am has been a huge part of my life. It's easy to act like my past never happened, but it feels like I've put up this wall around my heart.

Meredith Russo

#67. And forgive me if this is harsh, but I don't want you getting it into your head that the love you have for Ridge will be enough to hold you over until the day Maggie dies. Because Maggie isn't dying, Sydney. Maggie's living. She'll be around a lot longer than Ridge's heart could ever survive you.

Colleen Hoover

#68. I'm seventeen. This isn't puppy love any more. The boys are nearly men, when they bite they leave scars.

Tanya Byrne

#69. This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.

Justin Timberlake

#70. Again, again ... " really means "We must love each other, you and I, if this one story, told and retold, is all we need." Reading again isn't about repeating yourself; it's about offering fresh proof of a love that never tires.

Daniel Pennac

#71. Isn't this a sight," Friedrich said, darting in front of them. "My Lady Love and my underlings," he said, glowering at his men.

K.M. Shea

#72. Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

Eliza Doolittle

#73. This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.

Melina Marchetta

#74. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.

David Mitchell

#75. I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Cindy Crawford

#76. Ms. Scarlett always delivers hot, sexy alphas and this isn't any different. Holy smokes, is this ever HOT! Love her writing and the way she spins a story but adds the HOT factor. Her alphas are phenomenal! - JC

Scarlett Avery

#77. The love of money leads many humans to humiliate themselves but this isn't as bad as their disdain towards the poorest.

Daniel Marques

#78. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.

Nikki Rowe

#79. I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

Donald Berwick

#80. This isn't just young love she's seeing between Violet and Vicente. This is mad love. The kind that's incurable.

Karina Halle

#81. I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

Johnny Depp

#82. I've managed to keep him for three months, but in no way does that mean I get to keep him forever. That's the whole idea, isn't it? That is what the theories prepare us for. This is why, when he's finally gone for good it won't hurt as much.

Alexis Bass

#83. This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her.

Justin Cronin

#84. This isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]

Chuck Palahniuk

#85. Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?"
"Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.

Stephenie Meyer

#86. Isn't it strange that the emotions of love and the afflictions of lust are look-alike, bewildering women from discerning the lover from a seducer, and unfortunately for them the language of love and the dialect of lust have a common alphabet causing this confusion.

BS Murthy

#87. He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.

Megan Hart

#88. Screw this love shit. I'm done. Love isn't a cure-all. It's a fucking disease.

Cheryl McIntyre

#89. A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

Jeanette Winterson

#90. Have you thought this through? People die, love. I'm all for women, but this isn't a woman's game.'
For some reason, this irritates me more than anythign else I've heard all day. It's not even relevant.

Maggie Stiefvater

#91. Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn't watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Jack Kornfield

#92. To atone, I teach and try to set an example ... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

Charlie Munger

#93. This isn't submission." "Isn't it?" "No." He looks up at me, tired as well, but he's never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. "It's love.

Alexis Hall

#94. This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.

Lauren DeStefano

#95. This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants - virtuousness - or what she needs - protection.

Nenia Campbell

#96. The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn't fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.
I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he'd stop staring at me like that.

Alex Rosa

#97. I know this isn't a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn't even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.

Jojo Moyes

#98. My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn't just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want to marry you and create a million moments every single day.

Rachel Van Dyken

#99. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#100. This morning I woke up, how blessed I am
Eyes to see, a voice to speak
Words to read and love to feel?
If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.

Nikki Rowe