Love Is Not Quotes

“Love is not a pie.”

— Amy Bloom

“Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.”

— David Gemmell

“Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.”

— Brent Weeks

“Love is not like Ice, that melts but the foundation of Respect, Love and Care”

— Samar Sudha

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

— Jodi Picoult

“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!”

— T.C. Carrier

“LOVE IS NOT MADE UP OF OPITION
LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LOVED BACK
DON'T LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BENEFIT OR ACHIVE SOMETHING”

— Ralph Ramovha

“There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.”

— Kelseyleigh Reber

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”

— S.J. Perelman

“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”

— Thomas Moore

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”

— Erich Fromm

“Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Love is not the expression of words and really you no need to show that when you act for them your sudden unconditional decision, work, non-sense, care shows everything ... that make them special one of your world ... Bharat Bhushan”

— Bharat

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Too many disciples have faith in their faith, or in their joy in the Lord; and when a spiritual storm comes, they have neither faith nor joy. Only one thing can endure, and that is love for God. If such love is not there, we will not recognize the loving voice of God when He cries out to us that He is "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble ... be still, and know that I am God ... " (Ps. 46:1, 10a).”

— Oswald Chambers

“Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.”

— Nora Roberts

“The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him:
"The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will
"
I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

“Sometimes love is not enough.”

— Sarah MacLean

“In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.”

— Bell Hooks

“You're forgetting something iadala. Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst
a need as vital to the soul as water is to the body.”

— Colleen Houck

“A true love is not shouting and yelling for your beloved, but silently struggling for her honor”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Love is not for sale but you can also get a copy by paying.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“In any case, our love is not a typical love, as is typically felt between men and women. We share something else between us - something more immediate, more cherishing. That has been evident to me from the beginning, and I pray it has been evident to you. My wish is that we two could live together as one, both contented and elevated, and ever-seeking.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Gabriel nodded. "Sometimes love makes hard decisions for the sake of what needs protecting." "But love should fight." He nodded slowly. "Yes, love should fight. But there is a difference between a valiant fight and a selfish fight. And love is not selfish." She turned to look at him across the grass. "For someone who is cursed to be without love you are quite wise on matters of the heart." Sorrow filled her eyes. "I'm sorry for your curse." He shrugged. "It could be worse. I could be cursed to an eternity of pain or a life without chocolate.”

— Chelsea Fine

“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”

— St. Jerome

“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”

— Michael Novak

“Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.”

— Mark Twain

“Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we'll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.”

— James A. Michener

“In the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of ages long forgotten; that love is not broken by time.”

— Mark Helprin

“The boy is loved. The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?”

— Kelly Link

“THIS TORTURE
Why should we tell you our love stories
when you spill them together like blood in the dirt?
Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor,
or a fire we can't see,
but how does saying that
push us through the top of the head into
the light above the head?
Love is not
an iron pot, so this boiling energy
won't help.
Soul, heart, self.
Beyond and within those
is one saying,
How long before I'm free of this torture!”

— Rumi

“Dear You, You are holding in your hands what was promised to you years ago. I'm sorry it took so long. But life, as is so often the case, is life and we forget about the promises we've made. You, however, are harder to forget. I know the world is crazy. I know love is not always the way it's meant to be. I know sometimes, things hurt. But I also know that we'll get through this. That our hearts will arrive on the other side, in one piece. That everything is beautiful, if we give it the chance to be. I've tried to write down what I saw and what you told me and I sincerely don't think I missed anything. Let me know if I have. I love you. I miss you. Me”

— Pleasefindthis

“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation. Instead, as our work makes all too clear, the world is full of live men and women who encounter difficulty in loving or being loved, and whose happiness depends critically upon resolving that situation with the utmost expediency.”

— Thomas Lewis

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Nd love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way”

— Paulo Coelho

“There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.
How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?”

— Eleanor Brown

“Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.”

— Albert Camus

“Love is not of value when this superficial contract must be drawn up, representing the two worlds that enclose us.”

— Coco J. Ginger

“Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.”

— John Powell

“One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.”

— Paul Tillich

“Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.”

— Alex Gaskarth

“Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over ...”

— Walt Whitman

“Love is not a feeling to pass away
Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day ...
Love is not a passion of earthly mould
As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold”

— Charles Dickens

“What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.”

— Rajneesh

“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