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Oh, I pray you by these tears, by the faith in your right hand— what else have I left myself in all my pain?— by our wedding vows, the marriage we began, if I deserve some decency from you now, if anything mine has ever won your heart, pity a great house about to fall, I pray you, if prayers have any place—reject this scheme of yours!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virgil", "slug": "virgil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil" }, "book": { "title": "The Aeneid", "slug": "the-aeneid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "separation", "slug": "separation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:57" }, { "id": "0093a395-0c55-467e-8c03-db4dca53249b", "slug": "i-pray-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-pray-that", "text": "I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades, the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night, before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws. 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One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "slug": "antoine-de-saint-exupery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery" }, "book": { "title": "The Little Prince", "slug": "the-little-prince", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/the-little-prince" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "flowers", "slug": "flowers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/flowers" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:51" }, { "id": "e6b8aa90-f0d8-4bc6-8798-e21a6305d6b6", "slug": "the-forests-through", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/the-forests-through", "text": "The forests through which we have passed with our child, the trees under which we have walked, the convents in which we have hidden, the games, the free laughter of childhood, all is in shadow. I imagined that all that belonged to me. There was my folly. Those Thenardiers were wicked. We must forgive them. Cosette, the time has come to tell of your mother. Her name was Fantine. Remember that name: Fantine. Fall on your knees whenever you pronounce it. She suffered much. And loved you much. Her measure of unhappiness was as full as yours of happiness. Such are the distributions of God. He is on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of his great stars. So I am going away, my children. Love each other dearly always. 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Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sophocles", "slug": "sophocles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sophocles" }, "book": { "title": "Antigone", "slug": "antigone", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sophocles/antigone" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 471, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sophocles#Antigone", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:39" }, { "id": "fc4d87d8-c886-4504-9f54-6f67f0401050", "slug": "what-however-is-my-fault", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/metamorphoses/what-however-is-my-fault", "text": "What, however, is my fault? Unless to have played can be called a fault, unless it can be called a fault to have loved.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ovid", "slug": "ovid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid" }, "book": { "title": "Metamorphoses", "slug": "metamorphoses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/metamorphoses" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "guilt", "slug": "guilt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ovid#Metamorphoses_(Transformations)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:38" }, { "id": "ddc2c744-0d37-4d12-b088-78cde692817e", "slug": "love-is-a-thing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/heroides/love-is-a-thing", "text": "Love is a thing full of anxious fears.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ovid", "slug": "ovid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid" }, "book": { "title": "Heroides", "slug": "heroides", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ovid/heroides" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ovid#Heroides_(The_Heroines)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:37" }, { "id": "2b6ba9d6-2d77-4b40-bd84-11ab2032f5b5", "slug": "arent-our-eyes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/letters-to-milena/arent-our-eyes", "text": "Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression of everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true. 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"https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/love-hath-so-long", "text": "Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dante Alighieri", "slug": "dante-alighieri", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri" }, "book": { "title": "La Vita Nuova", "slug": "la-vita-nuova", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri#La_Vita_Nuova_(1293)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:12" }, { "id": "e0c70eda-bdb7-4748-b7d9-43e8f6bde8a5", "slug": "i-saw-within", "url": 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The rich brewer's widow is a match fully as good and respectable.\" Let them croak in the swamp undisturbed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sören Kierkegaard", "slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard" }, "book": { "title": "Fear and Trembling", "slug": "fear-and-trembling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/fear-and-trembling" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling#Problemata:Preliminary_Expectoration", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:01:58" }, { "id": "27ed19ea-3966-4a0b-996a-b76f57f00b7d", "slug": "when-the-child", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/fear-and-trembling/when-the-child", "text": "When the child must be weaned, the mother blackens her breast, it would indeed be a shame that the breast should look delicious when the child must not have it. So the child believes that the breast has changed, but the mother is the same, her glance is as loving and tender as ever. 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But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all. Everyone shall be remembered, but each became great in proportion to his expectation. One became great by expecting the possible, another by expecting the eternal, but he who expected the impossible became greater than all. Everyone shall be remembered, but each was great in proportion to the greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all. So there was strife in the world, man against man, one against a thousand, but he who strove with God was greater than all. So there was strife upon earth : there was one who overcame all by his power, and there was one who overcame God by his impotence. There was one who relied upon himself and gained all, there was one who secure in his strength sacrificed all, but he who believed God was greater than all. There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love ; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sören Kierkegaard", "slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard" }, "book": { "title": "Fear and Trembling", "slug": "fear-and-trembling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/fear-and-trembling" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 31, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling#A_Panegyric_Upon_Abraham", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:01:58" }, { "id": "8ad6ec66-8123-4319-8b9e-481279f3b43c", "slug": "love-means-to-look", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/czeslaw-milosz/rescue/love-means-to-look", "text": "Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills — A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Czesław Miłosz", "slug": "czeslaw-milosz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/czeslaw-milosz" }, "book": { "title": "Rescue", "slug": "rescue", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/czeslaw-milosz/rescue" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "humility", "slug": "humility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz#Rescue_(1945)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:01:56" }, { "id": "b38e12c8-4f61-4197-b8e5-7d18cbd98ed9", "slug": "there-is-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/eitheror/there-is-nothing", "text": "There is nothing more dangerous to me than remembering. The moment I have remembered some life-relationship that moment it ceased to exist. People say that separation, tends to revive love. Quite true, but it revives it in a purely poetic manner. The life that is lived wholly in memory is the most perfect conceivable, the satisfactions of memory are richer than any reality, and have a security that in no reality possesses. A remembered life-relations has already passed into eternity, and ha no more temporal interest.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sören Kierkegaard", "slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard" }, "book": { "title": "Either/Or", "slug": "eitheror", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/eitheror" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 32, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Either/Or#Diapsalmata", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:01:54" }, { "id": "f1693ec4-a078-4323-af79-db5a7d485b08", "slug": "true-love-like", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass/true-love-like", "text": "True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "Wizard and Glass", "slug": "wizard-and-glass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "falling in love", "slug": "falling-in-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._IV:_Wizard_and_Glass", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:39" }, { "id": "9481188e-8992-409e-9029-9dede9348ef3", "slug": "if-you-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass/if-you-love", "text": "If you love me, then love me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "Wizard and Glass", "slug": "wizard-and-glass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._IV:_Wizard_and_Glass", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:39" }, { "id": "65271cfc-945d-4a53-8779-a6fa2355a612", "slug": "keep-my-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass/keep-my-love", "text": "Keep my love safe; take my love safe to where he goes, give him joy in who he sees, and make him a cause of joy in those who see him.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "Wizard and Glass", "slug": "wizard-and-glass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._IV:_Wizard_and_Glass", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:39" }, { "id": "f70d3ad8-8e5e-485c-b385-df706fb30e74", "slug": "i-love-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-drawing-of-the-three/i-love-you", "text": "“I love you, Eddie. You have tried so hard. Been so patient. So has he—” she nodded toward the place where the gunslinger lay propped against the rocks, watching. “– but he is a hard man to love.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "The Drawing Of The Three", "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-three", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-drawing-of-the-three" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._II:_The_Drawing_of_the_Three", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:38" }, { "id": "03a6b719-093f-405f-9a9b-f60943d948b7", "slug": "if-you-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-drawing-of-the-three/if-you-have", "text": "If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. 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But do you want to own it?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "The Drawing Of The Three", "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-three", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-drawing-of-the-three" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "purpose", "slug": "purpose", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/purpose" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._II:_The_Drawing_of_the_Three", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:18:38" }, { "id": "eede7772-3577-4ca1-846a-5b0c22f62a32", "slug": "pity-and-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-e-wilson/our-nig/pity-and-love", "text": "Pity and love know little severance. One attends the other. (Chapter I)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harriet E. 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(Chapter XII)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harriet E. Wilson", "slug": "harriet-e-wilson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-e-wilson" }, "book": { "title": "Our Nig", "slug": "our-nig", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-e-wilson/our-nig" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harriet_E._Wilson#Our_Nig_(1859_novel)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:30" }, { "id": "ffed3c4e-996d-47fd-add8-7a11015550f2", "slug": "she-often-wondered", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief/she-often-wondered", "text": "She often wondered whether cleanliness drove love away. Fastidious, she suspected that life itself was to be found in dirt and disorder, in unknown dark substances that she was hesitant to touch.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Smiley", "slug": "jane-smiley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley" }, "book": { "title": "The Age of Grief", "slug": "the-age-of-grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley#The_Age_of_Grief_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:24" }, { "id": "ab1b1fd5-d7ea-4ee6-8e9a-be396247f0a0", "slug": "i-will-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief/i-will-never", "text": "I will never see her, hard as I try to look past love. 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Because one day you'll find it's true.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Pfarrer", "slug": "chuck-pfarrer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-pfarrer" }, "book": { "title": "Warrior Soul", "slug": "warrior-soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-pfarrer/warrior-soul" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 312, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "the present moment", "slug": "the-present-moment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present-moment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Pfarrer#Warrior_Soul_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:29" }, { "id": "f72726cd-6d66-495d-87fb-36c2fd2fb755", "slug": "once-i-loved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/once-i-loved", "text": "\"Once I loved truly and my heart paid the price. Now let me love truly, Thor, let me love TWICE.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cressida Cowell", "slug": "cressida-cowell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell" }, "book": { "title": "How to Train Your Dragon", "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Break_a_Dragon's_Heart_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:28" }, { "id": "e7b81474-9ea7-4b5c-b626-919463634303", "slug": "there-are-some-questions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/there-are-some-questions", "text": "\"There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. \"And perhaps when it all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cressida Cowell", "slug": "cressida-cowell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell" }, "book": { "title": "How to Train Your Dragon", "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Fight_a_Dragon's_Fury_(2015)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:28" }, { "id": "ca68fb4d-cacc-4c31-8da0-14d2736ad82c", "slug": "human-hearts-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/human-hearts-are", "text": "Human hearts are not made of stone. Thank Thor. They can break, and heal, and beat again.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cressida Cowell", "slug": "cressida-cowell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell" }, "book": { "title": "How to Train Your Dragon", "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Twist_a_Dragon's_Tale_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:28" }, { "id": "a8c91fdf-c0c2-49f0-a2e1-a21c6c1cfbf1", "slug": "great-things-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/great-things-are", "text": "Great things are only made out of love and out of pain.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cressida Cowell", "slug": "cressida-cowell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell" }, "book": { "title": "How to Train Your Dragon", "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Betray_a_Dragon's_Hero_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:28" }, { "id": "21e3598a-97e9-4c41-b4f6-fc36962e3df9", "slug": "do-not-think", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/do-not-think", "text": "\"Do not think that just because I have the soul of a soldier and cannot speak soft words that it was not hard for me or that because I left, I did not love.\" said Valhallarama.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cressida Cowell", "slug": "cressida-cowell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell" }, "book": { "title": "How to Train Your Dragon", "slug": "how-to-train-your-dragon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Seize_a_Dragon's_Jewel_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:28" }, { "id": "12700b7f-c261-4196-9f12-250b2edb79e0", "slug": "when-i-read", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clint-smith/how-the-word-is-passed/when-i-read", "text": "When I read Jefferson's disparagement of Wheatley, it felt like he had been disparaging the entire lineage of Black poets who would follow her, myself included, and I saw a man who had not had a clear understanding of what love is. When Robert Hayden gave us the ballads to remember how captured Africans survived the Middle Passage and arrived on these shores, it was an act of love. When Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the children on the South Side of Chicago playing with one another in neighborhoods left neglected by the city, it was an act of love. When Audre Lorde fractured this language and then built us a new one, giving us a fresh way to make sense of who we are in the world, it was an act of love. When Sonia Sanchez makes lightning of her tongue, moving from Southern colloquialisms to stanzas shaped by Swahili, traversing an ocean in one breath, it is an act of love. Jefferson's conceptions of love seem to have been so distorted by his own prejudices that he was unable to recognize the endless examples of love that pervaded plantations across the country: mothers who huddled over their children and took the lash so their little ones wouldn't have to; surrogate mothers, fathers, and grandparents who took in children and raised them as their own when their biological parents were disappeared in the middle of the night; the people who loved and married and committed to one another despite the omnipresent threat that they might be separated at any moment. 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Love can’t be counted, so it’s probably even more valuable than gold.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Eddings", "slug": "david-eddings", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings" }, "book": { "title": "The Redemption of Althalus", "slug": "the-redemption-of-althalus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "money", "slug": "money", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Eddings#Part_II_cap_7", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:22" }, { "id": "50a01769-15aa-4f94-9136-e84edeee6cad", "slug": "you-see-she", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall/you-see-she", "text": "“You see,” she says slowly, “I was always desired. But now I am valued. And that is a different thing, I find.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Hilary Mantel", "slug": "hilary-mantel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel" }, "book": { "title": "Wolf Hall", "slug": "wolf-hall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 400, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel#Wolf_Hall_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:20" }, { "id": "9710898f-8353-4467-9fda-fa80b4127bf9", "slug": "with-the-thought", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-s-stone/a-flag-for-sunrise/with-the-thought", "text": "With the thought came the recollection of a poem he had once heard read, about a mouse so frightened it went to the cat for love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert S. 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It is only love, Helenonly that.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sarah Waters", "slug": "sarah-waters", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-waters" }, "book": { "title": "Affinity", "slug": "affinity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-waters/affinity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarah_Waters#Affinity_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:17" }, { "id": "e95fbfd8-5dfe-41d2-8cf2-9b085cc6d14d", "slug": "whenever-id-heard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/whenever-id-heard", "text": "Whenever I'd heard anyone say \"Relationships are work,\" I'd always scoffed, because I thought relationships should grow wild like untended gardens, but now I knew they were work, and unpaid work too - volunteer work.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Steve Toltz", "slug": "steve-toltz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz" }, "book": { "title": "A Fraction Of The Whole", "slug": "a-fraction-of-the-whole", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Toltz#Four", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:11" }, { "id": "86f7295c-a90d-4426-9352-f5a409d3ac63", "slug": "after-this-incident", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/after-this-incident", "text": "After this incident I got into the bad habit of treating her with courtesy and respect. Courtesy and respect are advisable when addressing a judge right before he sentences you, but in a relationship they signify discomfort.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Steve Toltz", "slug": "steve-toltz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz" }, "book": { "title": "A Fraction Of The Whole", "slug": "a-fraction-of-the-whole", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Toltz#Four", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:11" }, { "id": "036d138a-6b45-452f-9a24-ef01f50d8f0a", "slug": "a-work-of-art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernst-junger/the-glass-bees/a-work-of-art", "text": "A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernst Jünger", "slug": "ernst-junger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernst-junger" }, "book": { "title": "The Glass Bees", "slug": "the-glass-bees", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernst-junger/the-glass-bees" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger#The_Glass_Bees_(1957)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:08" }, { "id": "c05820e5-5836-4b73-bed9-7d0e15211074", "slug": "can-you-continue", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila/oil-on-water/can-you-continue", "text": "\"Can you continue to love a person regardless of such shortcomings? Maybe because you hope to save them? Or because you can't help it? Isn't that what love is all about?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Helon Habila", "slug": "helon-habila", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila" }, "book": { "title": "Oil on Water", "slug": "oil-on-water", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila/oil-on-water" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "flaws", "slug": "flaws", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/flaws" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helon_Habila#Oil_on_Water_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:59" }, { "id": "84df91ff-3ebd-492c-954a-a519fa825cf9", "slug": "that-love-loves", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/that-love-loves", "text": "That love loves fidelity [...] is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Mitchell", "slug": "david-mitchell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell" }, "book": { "title": "Cloud Atlas", "slug": "cloud-atlas", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 69, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fidelity", "slug": "fidelity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fidelity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)#Letters_from_Zedelghem_(Part_1)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:56" }, { "id": "44feff8f-a31b-4ce9-9446-d2d6a9726fa6", "slug": "only-one-thing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-alexander-percy/lanterns-on-the-levee/only-one-thing", "text": "Only one thing never changes – the human heart. Revolutions and ideologies may lacerate it, even break it, but they cannot change its essence. After Fascism and Communism and Capitalism and Socialism are over and forgotten as completely as slavery and the old South, that same headstrong human heart will be clamoring for the old things it wept for in Eden – love and a chance to be noble, laughter and a chance to adore something, someone, somewhere. (Ch. 3)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Alexander Percy", "slug": "william-alexander-percy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-alexander-percy" }, "book": { "title": "Lanterns On The Levee", "slug": "lanterns-on-the-levee", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-alexander-percy/lanterns-on-the-levee" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" }, { "name": "ideology", "slug": "ideology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ideology" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Percy#Lanterns_on_the_Levee_(1941)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:50" }, { "id": "fc15e79b-014d-4d90-96d5-f2a41cab2bce", "slug": "and-you-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/and-you-know", "text": "And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tim Winton", "slug": "tim-winton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton" }, "book": { "title": "The Shepherd's Hut", "slug": "the-shepherds-hut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 83, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#The_Shepherd's_Hut_(2018)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:48" }, { "id": "bfe8a374-e984-48b2-8397-54662ce6725f", "slug": "another-man-an-american", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/dirt-music/another-man-an-american", "text": "Another man, an American, had once told her in a high, laughing moment his theory of love. It was magic, he said. \"The magic ain't real, darlin, but when it's gone it's over.\" Georgie didn't want to believe in such thin stuff, that all devotion was fuelled by delusion, that you needed some spurious myth to keep you going in love or work or service. 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She was just there. 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Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before. 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Was it biology alone, or was it love? 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That despair turned inside out you called love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ana Castillo", "slug": "ana-castillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo" }, "book": { "title": "I Ask the Impossible", "slug": "i-ask-the-impossible", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "despair", "slug": "despair", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana_Castillo#I_Ask_The_Impossible_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:45" }, { "id": "364c9d1f-1a1c-4303-b906-11850d9653e8", "slug": "when-i-say", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/the-mixquiahuala-letters/when-i-say", "text": "When i say ours was a love affair, it is an expression of nostalgia and melancholy for the depth of our empathy. 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I was not happy—had almost never been happy. This is terrible! I thought. All those lies! I felt physically sick to see it all: to see myself slack-jawed as a child in front of the television, to see myself in classes being told by robot teachers that “inward development” was the aim of life, that “quick sex is best,” that the only reality was in my consciousness and that it could be altered chemically. What I had wanted, what I had yearned for even then, was to be loved. And to love. 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He made her like herself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "slug": "chimamanda-ngozi-adichie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie" }, "book": { "title": "Americanah", "slug": "americanah", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/americanah" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Americanah_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:39" }, { "id": "4bc2ccd9-0887-4e4d-9bce-a389385e9b26", "slug": "with-him-she", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/americanah/with-him-she", "text": "With him, she was at ease: her skin felt as though it was her right size. 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The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "slug": "chimamanda-ngozi-adichie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie" }, "book": { "title": "Americanah", "slug": "americanah", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/americanah" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Americanah_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:39" }, { "id": "1ed3357e-3eef-4948-bad4-1ab5322f0771", "slug": "she-liked-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/americanah/she-liked-that", "text": "She liked that [Obinze] wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. She would sink into moodiness, and snap at Obinze, or be distant. And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "slug": "chimamanda-ngozi-adichie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie" }, "book": { "title": "Americanah", "slug": "americanah", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/americanah" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Americanah_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:39" }, { "id": "1b759400-df30-4e26-838e-1ecdf7919b2e", "slug": "then-she-wished", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/then-she-wished", "text": "\"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "slug": "chimamanda-ngozi-adichie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie" }, "book": { "title": "Half of a Yellow Sun", "slug": "half-of-a-yellow-sun", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Half_of_a_yellow_sun_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:39" }, { "id": "4a62bc7e-0ffe-47f9-889a-7822f594b631", "slug": "in-a-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-stedman/faitheist/in-a-universe", "text": "In a universe where I believe meaning and purpose are not gifted from a divine source but are instead collectively assembled by humans, learning to live alongside and love others—all others—is perhaps our greatest task.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chris Stedman", "slug": "chris-stedman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-stedman" }, "book": { "title": "Faitheist", "slug": "faitheist", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-stedman/faitheist" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 162, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Stedman#Faitheist_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:29" }, { "id": "003cac6b-1227-4584-8afe-b72cbc9b82b5", "slug": "i-want-to-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/osamu-dazai/schoolgirl/i-want-to-love", "text": "I want to love everyone', I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by little. Gradually it turns bluish. [..] I had never seen anything as beautiful as the translucent leaves and grass. 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You’re funny looking, as a matter of fact. You’re too busy to spare much time for me, and even if you did take me out night-clubbing somewhere, you’d be so out of place that I couldn’t enjoy it. But you do one thing: you let me feel that my rules are as worthwhile to me as yours are to you. When you ask me to do something, I know you won’t be hurt if I refuse. And if I do it, you don’t feel that you’ve scored a point in some kind of complex game. You don’t try to use me, cozen me, or change me. I take up as much room in the world, the way you see it, as you do. Do you have any idea of how rare a thing that is?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Algis Budrys", "slug": "algis-budrys", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys" }, "book": { "title": "Rogue Moon", "slug": "rogue-moon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/rogue-moon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 127, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Algis_Budrys#Rogue_Moon_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:22" }, { "id": "b1b0bcf8-a185-4220-abb6-56956d1e11b5", "slug": "credomancy-may-seek", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-k-hobson/the-hidden-goddess/credomancy-may-seek", "text": "“Credomancy may seek to exploit the human desire for a tidy narrative where an unblemished romantic hero vanquishes all obstacles, but such ideals have very little to do with reality. Reality requires pragmatism and compromise. Men fail. Women fail. There are no heroes, only human beings who somehow find the strength to behave heroically, no matter how many times they have been unable to do so in the past. If you understand that, Miss Edwards—if you truly and deeply understand that, then you will understand the most powerful thing anyone with a heart can understand.” “And what’s that?” Emily said softly. “That love is not enough. But it’s a start.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "M. K. 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After true love conquered all?” Emily shook her head. “Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.” “Being dead allowed me to learn the heart’s deepest secret,” he said. “That sometimes love—even true love—isn’t enough.” ”But it’s a start,” Emily said.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "M. K. 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Imagine your future spouse is a vegan and does not enjoy being with people who eat meat. Could you imagine putting aside your beliefs and feelings, to show support, love and understanding for your partner’s?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nigel Cumberland", "slug": "nigel-cumberland", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland" }, "book": { "title": "100 Things Successful People Do", "slug": "100-things-successful-people-do", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland/100-things-successful-people-do" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" }, { "name": "veganism", "slug": "veganism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/veganism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nigel_Cumberland#100_Things_Successful_People_Do:_Little_Exercises_for_Successful_Living_(2016)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:08" }, { "id": "dde48412-a1f8-4946-b2ec-572e4d2dc1fa", "slug": "we-miss-so-much", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/rainbow-valley/we-miss-so-much", "text": "We miss so much out of life if we don't love. The more we love the richer life is—even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "slug": "lucy-maud-montgomery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery" }, "book": { "title": "Rainbow Valley", "slug": "rainbow-valley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/rainbow-valley" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "animals", "slug": "animals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery#Rainbow_Valley_(1919)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:05" }, { "id": "62d274cb-34a3-4873-bf91-87f32ba03db2", "slug": "i-wended-my-way", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-windy-poplars/i-wended-my-way", "text": "\"I wended my way to the graveyard this evening,\" wrote Anne to Gilbert after she got home. \"I think 'wend your way' is a lovely phrase and I work it in whenever I can. It sounds funny to say I enjoyed my stroll in the graveyard but I really did. Miss Courtaloe's stories were so funny. Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "slug": "lucy-maud-montgomery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery" }, "book": { "title": "Anne of Windy Poplars", "slug": "anne-of-windy-poplars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-windy-poplars" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery#Anne_of_Windy_Poplars_(1936)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:05" }, { "id": "0b8c14dd-03aa-4ddf-bd80-fa9e20c71e5b", "slug": "gilbert-was-friendly-very", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-the-island/gilbert-was-friendly-very", "text": "Gilbert was friendly—very friendly—far too friendly....But Anne no longer found it satisfying. The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "slug": "lucy-maud-montgomery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery" }, "book": { "title": "Anne of the Island", "slug": "anne-of-the-island", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-the-island" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery#Anne_of_the_Island_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:04" }, { "id": "f810bded-e2d9-412b-90a9-57b18e924634", "slug": "love-is-a-state", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now/love-is-a-state", "text": "Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "The Power of Now", "slug": "the-power-of-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now#Chapter_8._Enlightened_Relationships", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:02" }, { "id": "42b48c5c-2275-4ab1-8233-820e803e5228", "slug": "can-love-change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now/can-love-change", "text": "Can love change into its opposite in an instant? Was it love in the first place, or just an addictive grasping and clinging? p. 95", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "The Power of Now", "slug": "the-power-of-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now#Chapter_8._Enlightened_Relationships", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:02" }, { "id": "3842cff9-ed89-40fe-8d28-1cc63abb2d10", "slug": "what-is-often", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now/what-is-often", "text": "What is often referred to as love may be pleasurable and exciting for a while, but it is an addictive clinging, an extremely needy condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch. Many \"love\" relationships, after the initial euphoria has passed, actually oscillate between \"love\" and hate, attraction and attack. Real love doesn't make you suffer. How could it? It doesn't suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "The Power of Now", "slug": "the-power-of-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now#Chapter_1._You_Are_Not_Your_Mind", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:00" }, { "id": "58539692-a2aa-4c9a-ac6d-6c0da5b03c84", "slug": "i-breathe-in-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/i-breathe-in-the", "text": "I breathe in the full scent of her. If it ends tomorrow or in eighty years, I could breathe her for the rest of my life. But I want more. I need more. I tilt her slender jaw up with my hand so that she's looking at me. I was going to say something important. Something memorable. But I've forgotten it in her eyes. That gulf that divided us is still there, filled with questions and recrimination and guilt, but that's only part of love, part of being human. 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The more you have, the more you burn. 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The things one does, one should do out of love.' 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It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. 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She's got a heart of gold, and you can't fake something like that.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "At First Sight", "slug": "at-first-sight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/at-first-sight" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 147, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#At_First_Sight_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:23" }, { "id": "466b01cd-3e41-4d40-9c47-65102fcdd0b5", "slug": "sometimes-the-same", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/at-first-sight/sometimes-the-same", "text": "Sometimes the same emotion that breaks your heart is the very one that will heal it...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "At First Sight", "slug": "at-first-sight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/at-first-sight" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#At_First_Sight_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:23" }, { "id": "06f219f6-b38d-4e5c-9416-84ff689f8c3e", "slug": "suddenly-certain-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/at-first-sight/suddenly-certain-that", "text": "...suddenly certain that what he was doing now was the sole reason he'd been placed on this earth. 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To care for someone unconditionally, for in the end that was what gave life meaning.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "At First Sight", "slug": "at-first-sight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/at-first-sight" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 263, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#At_First_Sight_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:23" }, { "id": "e973f835-0617-4350-908e-f941c0a675db", "slug": "the-events-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding/the-events-of-the", "text": "The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Wedding", "slug": "the-wedding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 262, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Wedding_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:22" }, { "id": "d746b8c9-5932-4202-a361-ad65e70dd4ab", "slug": "love-could-be-set", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/true-believer/love-could-be-set", "text": "Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgment.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "True Believer", "slug": "true-believer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/true-believer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 192, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#True_Believer_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:22" }, { "id": "cd003e28-cf42-4240-a967-d76500f2f822", "slug": "but-love-ive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding/but-love-ive", "text": "But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Wedding", "slug": "the-wedding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 63, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Wedding_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:22" }, { "id": "432fa6c6-e6b3-4322-9c46-33a09b4f2db6", "slug": "she-would-fall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding/she-would-fall", "text": "\"...she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Wedding", "slug": "the-wedding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 25, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Wedding_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:22" }, { "id": "fb84708e-dd25-4871-86fe-3eac136b2ab7", "slug": "when-i-sleep", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe/when-i-sleep", "text": "\"When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "Nights In Rodanthe", "slug": "nights-in-rodanthe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 188, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "longing", "slug": "longing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#Nights_in_Rodanthe_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:21" }, { "id": "9d3f87fd-0f4c-48de-a544-150e6a49b901", "slug": "my-mom-used", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-guardian/my-mom-used", "text": "\"My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Guardian", "slug": "the-guardian", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-guardian" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 202, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Guardian_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:21" }, { "id": "305631d1-b004-4df9-a2d0-48ca46b3efd2", "slug": "the-greater-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe/the-greater-the", "text": "\"...The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "Nights In Rodanthe", "slug": "nights-in-rodanthe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 152, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#Nights_in_Rodanthe_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:21" }, { "id": "11ce0c97-48a2-4fef-a2fc-2c10107c31ba", "slug": "loving-someone-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-rescue/loving-someone-and", "text": "\"Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on...\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Rescue", "slug": "the-rescue", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-rescue" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 314, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Rescue_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:21" }, { "id": "d6e0c367-f7ee-4e86-ae8e-cab4d06d5ade", "slug": "deannas-voice-softened", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/message-in-a-bottle/deannas-voice-softened", "text": "Deanna's voice softened. \"Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.\" \"I know that--\" \"But you don't,\" Deanna said, gently cutting her off. \"Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "Message In A Bottle", "slug": "message-in-a-bottle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/message-in-a-bottle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 196, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#Message_in_a_Bottle_(1998)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:20" }, { "id": "cd71d67e-2be0-44e3-a541-c09ae1ebca1d", "slug": "i-am-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-notebook/i-am-nothing", "text": "I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebook", "slug": "the-notebook", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-notebook" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 2, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Notebook_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:20" }, { "id": "472aa4ca-10c3-4318-9280-c5d2bfe54f36", "slug": "i-lead-a-simple", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-notebook/i-lead-a-simple", "text": "I lead a simple life now, I am foolish, an old man in love, a dreamer who dreams of nothing but reading to Allie and holding her whenever I can. I am a sinner with many faults and a man who believes in magic, but I am too old to change and too old to care.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebook", "slug": "the-notebook", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-notebook" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 212, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Notebook_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:20" }, { "id": "46dc61ba-ab3f-4cda-aed6-6fe26674652c", "slug": "her-mother-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-rescue/her-mother-had", "text": "Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Rescue", "slug": "the-rescue", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-rescue" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 231, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "secrets", "slug": "secrets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Rescue_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:20" }, { "id": "290f9c96-7c43-47b0-93a9-271e3b14e795", "slug": "she-said-we-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius/she-said-we-are", "text": "She said, \"We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. We are so terribly different.\" \"Yes,\" he said, \"But the more different, the more lovely the loving.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Olaf Stapledon", "slug": "olaf-stapledon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon" }, "book": { "title": "Sirius", "slug": "sirius", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "otherness", "slug": "otherness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon#Sirius_(1944)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:18" }, { "id": "3ada93f6-c37d-4720-b5c1-a0ffc30c4a8c", "slug": "intelligence-alone-doesnt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/intelligence-alone-doesnt", "text": "Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Daniel Keyes", "slug": "daniel-keyes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes" }, "book": { "title": "Flowers For Algernon", "slug": "flowers-for-algernon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "education", "slug": "education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education" }, { "name": "intelligence", "slug": "intelligence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Keyes#Flowers_for_Algernon_(1966)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:15" }, { "id": "15999625-f976-4635-b24d-ed32d8d1fc39", "slug": "dont-misunderstand-me-i-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/dont-misunderstand-me-i-said", "text": "Don't misunderstand me,\" I said. \"Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Daniel Keyes", "slug": "daniel-keyes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes" }, "book": { "title": "Flowers For Algernon", "slug": "flowers-for-algernon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "intelligence", "slug": "intelligence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Keyes#Flowers_for_Algernon_(1966)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:15" }, { "id": "ee59a149-1ffa-47ee-8048-f7bf3b3dbac7", "slug": "abbas-now-marveled", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/midaq-alley/abbas-now-marveled", "text": "Abbas now marveled at the strength of love, its power and its strange magic. He thought it right that God had created mankind capable of love and then left the task of developing life to the fertility of love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Naguib Mahfouz", "slug": "naguib-mahfouz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz" }, "book": { "title": "Midaq Alley", "slug": "midaq-alley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/midaq-alley" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 37, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz#Midaq_Alley_(1947)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:13" }, { "id": "1c9700e2-aa86-4969-ad60-46cb407e2835", "slug": "maybe-its-better", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers/maybe-its-better", "text": "Maybe it’s better to be half of something wonderful than a whole nothing at all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Pat Cadigan", "slug": "pat-cadigan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan" }, "book": { "title": "Mindplayers", "slug": "mindplayers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 239, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Mindplayers_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:08" }, { "id": "cf4e42b6-01a3-4748-82f1-8d0857286b47", "slug": "we-depend-on-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/we-depend-on-the", "text": "We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andrew Solomon", "slug": "andrew-solomon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon" }, "book": { "title": "Far From The Tree", "slug": "far-from-the-tree", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" }, { "name": "immortality", "slug": "immortality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon#Far_from_the_Tree_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:05" }, { "id": "b6092e1f-9570-4a5e-b166-c2151e0aa1e2", "slug": "most-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/most-of-the", "text": "Most of the parents I interviewed for this book said they would never want other children than the ones they had, which at first seemed surprising given the challenges their children embody. But why do any of us prefer our own children, all of them defective in some regard, to others real or imagined? If some glorious angel descended into my living room and offered to exchange my children for other, better children—brighter, kinder, funnier, more loving, more disciplined, more accomplished—I would clutch the ones I have and, like most parents, pray away the atrocious specter.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andrew Solomon", "slug": "andrew-solomon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon" }, "book": { "title": "Far From The Tree", "slug": "far-from-the-tree", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 698, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "children", "slug": "children", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children" }, { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon#Far_from_the_Tree_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:05" }, { "id": "9ec96e49-3564-4e2c-8863-3acdc230747b", "slug": "im-not-responsible", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/im-not-responsible", "text": "\"I'm not responsible for my child and who she's become, but I am responsible to her, and she is a wonderful person. I love her. I don't know if you need to know anything else, but that's all I need to know.\" --Carol", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andrew Solomon", "slug": "andrew-solomon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon" }, "book": { "title": "Far From The Tree", "slug": "far-from-the-tree", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 671, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "responsibility", "slug": "responsibility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility" }, { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon#Far_from_the_Tree_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:05" }, { "id": "816e1466-845b-482d-be79-be7a6fdb646a", "slug": "i-think-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/i-think-all", "text": "I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andrew Solomon", "slug": "andrew-solomon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon" }, "book": { "title": "Far From The Tree", "slug": "far-from-the-tree", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 697, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "acceptance", "slug": "acceptance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/acceptance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon#Far_from_the_Tree_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:05" }, { "id": "583614fe-20cc-4346-a9e1-bd243fb8aec9", "slug": "i-espouse-reproductive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/i-espouse-reproductive", "text": "I espouse reproductive libertarianism, because when everyone has the broadest choice, love itself expands. The affection my family have found in one another is not a better love, but it is another love, and just as species diversity is crucial to sustain the planet, this diversity strengthens the ecosphere of kindness. The road less traveled by, as it turns out, leads to pretty much the same place.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Andrew Solomon", "slug": "andrew-solomon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon" }, "book": { "title": "Far From The Tree", "slug": "far-from-the-tree", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 700, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "family", "slug": "family", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family" }, { "name": "tolerance", "slug": "tolerance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon#Far_from_the_Tree_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:05" }, { "id": "53aac0cd-ba9e-4fb8-88ab-76182d06b82d", "slug": "with-a-few", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/grace-paley/the-little-disturbances-of-man/with-a-few", "text": "With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Grace Paley", "slug": "grace-paley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/grace-paley" }, "book": { "title": "The Little Disturbances of Man", "slug": "the-little-disturbances-of-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/grace-paley/the-little-disturbances-of-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Paley#The_Little_Disturbances_of_Man_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:04" }, { "id": "4369236c-1e1c-4041-92e9-9018960fb2dc", "slug": "the-near-enemy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart/the-near-enemy", "text": "The near enemy of love is attachment...True love allows, honors, and appreciates; 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Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George RR Martin", "slug": "george-rr-martin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin" }, "book": { "title": "A Clash of Kings", "slug": "a-clash-of-kings", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "cynicism", "slug": "cynicism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:48" }, { "id": "dbf2815d-9475-4e4a-80b6-55a749a0cedc", "slug": "farewell-farewell-but", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/farewell-farewell-but", "text": "Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! 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I will not question your reasons. It is enough for you to tell me that you wish to keep this distance between us, and it will always be enough. Know that a single word will bring me running, but unless and until it pleases you to give it, I will expect nothing, force nothing, and contrive nothing contrary to your wishes. I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. I want your heart on merit, in mutual trust, or not at all, because I cannot bear to see you made uneasy by me. 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For the Source abandons no man.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "Waylander II", "slug": "waylander-ii", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/waylander-ii" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "evil", "slug": "evil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Waylander_II:_In_the_Realm_of_the_Wolf", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:52" }, { "id": "fc26aa85-fff3-4370-a264-985ea8286c02", "slug": "unconditional-love-childhoods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/unconditional-love-childhoods", "text": "Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. 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Jemisin", "slug": "n-k-jemisin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin" }, "book": { "title": "The Kingdom Of Gods", "slug": "the-kingdom-of-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 35, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "childhood", "slug": "childhood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Kingdom_of_Gods_(2011)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49" }, { "id": "5e8f7555-20e7-4830-a1b7-54023e0557f3", "slug": "i-understand-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/i-understand-that", "text": "I understand that mutual dissatisfaction is a factor in their collaboration. I imagine it isn’t a far step from mutual goals to mutual respect, and from there to love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. Jemisin", "slug": "n-k-jemisin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin" }, "book": { "title": "The Broken Kingdoms", "slug": "the-broken-kingdoms", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 185, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Broken_Kingdoms_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49" }, { "id": "5e328234-5fa9-4bc9-a119-4d53cc0cfa89", "slug": "if-they-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/if-they-will", "text": "If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. Jemisin", "slug": "n-k-jemisin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin" }, "book": { "title": "The Kingdom Of Gods", "slug": "the-kingdom-of-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 331, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Kingdom_of_Gods_(2011)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49" }, { "id": "10519a9b-ca29-4cd3-b797-53021550cdd4", "slug": "love-betrayed-has", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/love-betrayed-has", "text": "Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. Jemisin", "slug": "n-k-jemisin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin" }, "book": { "title": "The Broken Kingdoms", "slug": "the-broken-kingdoms", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 58, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "betrayal", "slug": "betrayal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Broken_Kingdoms_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49" }, { "id": "06b5f39a-94b6-4ea3-b518-1170d1334b14", "slug": "well-isnt-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/well-isnt-that", "text": "“Well, isn’t that what fathers do?” He had no idea what fathers did. “Love you, even if you don’t love them? Miss you when you go away?”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. 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No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. 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Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Shakespeare", "slug": "william-shakespeare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-shakespeare" }, "book": { "title": "Sonnets", "slug": "sonnets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-shakespeare/sonnets" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#Sonnets_(1609)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:45" }, { "id": "3c2527d4-6859-453c-a3cf-5929457138d4", "slug": "let-me-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-shakespeare/sonnets/let-me-not", "text": "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Shakespeare", "slug": "william-shakespeare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-shakespeare" }, "book": { "title": "Sonnets", "slug": "sonnets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-shakespeare/sonnets" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#Sonnets_(1609)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:45" }, { "id": "eea87cf1-329e-465c-a4be-dd7f70524b39", "slug": "i-liked-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver/i-liked-the", "text": "\"I liked the feeling of love,\" [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. \"I wish we still had that,\" he whispered. \"Of course,\" he added quickly, \"I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. 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You ought to know by now that something always breaks up love affairs unless both parties are willing to compromise themselves. And that compromising is harder to do the older and less flexible and more independent you are. It just isn’t in you, Brian. You could no more get married now than you could become a priest, or a sculptor, or a greengrocer.” Duffy opened his mouth to voice angry denials, then one corner turned up and he closed it. “Damn you,” he said wryly. “Then why do I want to, half the time?” Aurelianus shrugged. “It’s the nature of the species. There’s a part of a man’s mind that can only relax and go to sleep when he’s with a woman, and that part gets tired of always being tensely awake. It gives orders in so loud a voice that it often drowns out the other components. But when the loud one is asleep at last, the others regain control and chart a new course.” He grinned. “No equilibrium is possible. If you don’t want to put up with the constant seesawing, you must either starve the logical components or bind, gag and lock away in a cellar that one insistent one.” Duffy grimaced and drank some more brandy. “I’m used to the rocking, and I was never one to get motion-sick,” he said. “I’ll stay on the seesaw.” Aurelianus bowed. “You have that option, sir.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tim Powers", "slug": "tim-powers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers" }, "book": { "title": "The Drawing Of The Dark", "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-dark", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-drawing-of-the-dark" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 247, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" }, { "name": "compromise", "slug": "compromise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compromise" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#The_Drawing_of_the_Dark_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:37" }, { "id": "aad5ff63-66f3-4e1a-872e-6556f65de0d0", "slug": "love-is-worth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francoise-sagan/bonjour-tristesse/love-is-worth", "text": "Love is worth whatever it costs.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Françoise Sagan", "slug": "francoise-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francoise-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Bonjour Tristesse", "slug": "bonjour-tristesse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francoise-sagan/bonjour-tristesse" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Sagan#Bonjour_Tristesse_(Published_in_1954)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:32" }, { "id": "fe3d00fc-0cc6-40d8-9a0d-870a28c462a0", "slug": "people-think-a-soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert/eat-pray-love/people-think-a-soul", "text": "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "slug": "elizabeth-gilbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert" }, "book": { "title": "Eat Pray Love", "slug": "eat-pray-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert/eat-pray-love" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert#Eat,_Pray,_Love_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:31" }, { "id": "3195662f-f20d-42ca-b61d-5f2e6f93902b", "slug": "some-of-us-get", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/some-of-us-get", "text": "“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wendelin Van Draanen", "slug": "wendelin-van-draanen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen" }, "book": { "title": "Flipped", "slug": "flipped", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen#Flipped_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:26" }, { "id": "e09bb8fb-a6b9-43fd-b28a-16594f71d97e", "slug": "if-one-of-us-likes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheldon-vanauken/a-severe-mercy/if-one-of-us-likes", "text": "If one of us likes anything, there must be something to like in it — and the other one must find it. Every single thing that either of us likes. That way we shall create a thousand strands, great and small, that will link us together. Then we shall be so close that it would be impossible — unthinkable — for either of us to suppose that we could ever recreate such closeness with anyone else. 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Doesn’t it have so infinitely many kinds and degrees and mutations and quantum jumps that— Never mind.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Poul Anderson", "slug": "poul-anderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson" }, "book": { "title": "There Will Be Time", "slug": "there-will-be-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/there-will-be-time" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 83, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#There_Will_Be_Time_(1972)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:46" }, { "id": "aad582c7-452c-4bd7-a70d-b4ee390dca40", "slug": "over-unforced-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-broken-sword/over-unforced-love", "text": "Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Poul Anderson", "slug": "poul-anderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson" }, "book": { "title": "The Broken Sword", "slug": "the-broken-sword", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-broken-sword" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 76, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Broken_Sword_(1954)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:43" }, { "id": "ef3299c0-17de-4880-a5e2-d067303635be", "slug": "but-my-other", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richelle-mead/vampire-academy/but-my-other", "text": "But my other words at the Mastranos’ had betrayed me: I have fun with him. Now, you should have fun with the one you love, but that shouldn’t have been what first came to my mind. I should have said, We strengthen each other, or, He makes me want to be a better person. Perhaps most importantly, He understands me perfectly. 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It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. 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It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Richelle Mead", "slug": "richelle-mead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richelle-mead" }, "book": { "title": "Vampire Academy", "slug": "vampire-academy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richelle-mead/vampire-academy" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vampire_Academy#Frostbite_(Book_2)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:28" }, { "id": "0de28385-31e6-4bbb-8354-70bf24209800", "slug": "i-am-unlovable-i", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-am-unlovable-i", "text": "I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jeff Lindsay", "slug": "jeff-lindsay", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay" }, "book": { "title": "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", "slug": "darkly-dreaming-dexter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_Lindsay_(writer)#Darkly_Dreaming_Dexter_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:25" }, { "id": "2d23704d-2f1f-4199-ae86-6824282815cb", "slug": "you-know-its", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/mercy/you-know-its", "text": "You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jodi Picoult", "slug": "jodi-picoult", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult" }, "book": { "title": "Mercy", "slug": "mercy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/mercy" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jodi_Picoult#Mercy_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:24" }, { "id": "eadda2a5-abb7-4622-9f68-77e566530093", "slug": "henceforth-i-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/og-mandino/the-greatest-salesman-in-the-world/henceforth-i-will", "text": "Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness because it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness because it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards because they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles because they are my challenge. 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Lost until you give it some kick. You're too young to leave it. Too young to keep it. Love's the breath a Life still lifts when Life is finally over with.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mark Z. 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For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For Love, man will destroy himself, and do so willingly.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jim Butcher", "slug": "jim-butcher", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher" }, "book": { "title": "Changes", "slug": "changes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/changes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher#Changes_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:17" }, { "id": "324de71a-e251-4572-a3f7-c495cf4e0d51", "slug": "the-extent-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana/kama-sutra/the-extent-of-the", "text": "The extent of the love of women is not known, even to those who are the objects of their affection, on account of its subtlety.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Vatsyayana", "slug": "vatsyayana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana" }, "book": { "title": "Kama Sutra", "slug": "kama-sutra", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana/kama-sutra" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:13" }, { "id": "23767e5b-44ee-47d9-a6d8-46203c77d7ab", "slug": "women-are-hardly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana/kama-sutra/women-are-hardly", "text": "Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent toward them; may give them delight, or abandon them; or may extract from them all the wealth that they may possess.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Vatsyayana", "slug": "vatsyayana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana" }, "book": { "title": "Kama Sutra", "slug": "kama-sutra", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vatsyayana/kama-sutra" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:13" }, { "id": "e2c107cb-3d06-481d-af76-41611b902b48", "slug": "i-love-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/stand-on-zanzibar/i-love-the", "text": "I love the place, and when they get love down to a bunch of factors you can analyse with a computer there’ll be nothing left of whatever makes it worth being human!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Brunner", "slug": "john-brunner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner" }, "book": { "title": "Stand On Zanzibar", "slug": "stand-on-zanzibar", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/stand-on-zanzibar" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "technology", "slug": "technology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#Stand_on_Zanzibar_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:09" }, { "id": "c93f2c13-1dbb-4df3-9aaf-7a774bf10095", "slug": "there-is-much", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron/there-is-much", "text": "“There is much to be known,” said Adaon, “and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lloyd Alexander", "slug": "lloyd-alexander", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander" }, "book": { "title": "The Black Cauldron", "slug": "the-black-cauldron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "knowledge", "slug": "knowledge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander#Book_II:_The_Black_Cauldron_(1965)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:07" }, { "id": "986a20e1-96e1-4497-9cb5-6d1259789bd1", "slug": "is-there-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron/is-there-not", "text": "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lloyd Alexander", "slug": "lloyd-alexander", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander" }, "book": { "title": "The Black Cauldron", "slug": "the-black-cauldron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-black-cauldron" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander#Book_II:_The_Black_Cauldron_(1965)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:07" }, { "id": "bb25351b-d215-4a8d-98e9-74d9d16cd040", "slug": "the-best-way", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/the-best-way", "text": "The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Warren Farrell", "slug": "warren-farrell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell" }, "book": { "title": "Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say", "slug": "women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "relationships", "slug": "relationships", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Farrell#Women_Can't_Hear_What_Men_Don't_Say_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:05" }, { "id": "7fd7c7ec-6a72-4832-95e9-3cc8dd483352", "slug": "it-never-occurs", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/it-never-occurs", "text": "It never occurs to most of us at a moment of disagreement with our partner to take the time to appreciate our partner’s positive character strengths as reflected in a stance we disagree with. When we do that, it allows our partner to know that no matter which decision she or he makes, our trust in their underlying character is never in question. It turns every disagreement into a potential gift of love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Warren Farrell", "slug": "warren-farrell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell" }, "book": { "title": "Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say", "slug": "women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 33, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" }, { "name": "relationships", "slug": "relationships", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Farrell#Women_Can't_Hear_What_Men_Don't_Say_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:05" }, { "id": "8c8e197f-8cab-47cc-b926-9ad3bf04f8d3", "slug": "sometimes-it-comes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire/sometimes-it-comes", "text": "\"Sometimes it comes down to a choice. Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen, and I'm selfish enough to want the person who loves me to choose me. But Nephilim will always choose the world. I look at Alec and I feel like Lucifer in Paradise Lost. \"Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.\" He meant it in the classic sense. 'Awful' as in inspiring awe. And awe is well and good, but it's poison to love. Love has to be between equals.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Heavenly Fire", "slug": "city-of-heavenly-fire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Heavenly_Fire_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:03" }, { "id": "77453b55-4144-40af-987a-605ef017db60", "slug": "shadowhunters-they-get", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire/shadowhunters-they-get", "text": "\"Shadowhunters. They get in your blood, under your skin. I've been with vampires, werewolves, faeries, warlocks like me-- and humans, so many fragile humans. But I always told myself I wouldn't give my heart to a Shadowhunter. I've so nearly loved them, been charmed by them-- generations of them, sometimes: Edmund and Will and James and Lucie... the ones I saved and the ones I couldn't. And Clary, too, I loved, for I watched her grow up. But I've never been in love with a Shadowhunter, not until Alec. For they have the blood of angels in them, and the love of angels is a high and holy thing.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Heavenly Fire", "slug": "city-of-heavenly-fire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "falling in love", "slug": "falling-in-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Heavenly_Fire_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:03" }, { "id": "5e5dee01-4008-45b9-ad62-1121544e2db8", "slug": "herondales-i-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire/herondales-i-had", "text": "\"Herondales. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Heavenly Fire", "slug": "city-of-heavenly-fire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "responsibility", "slug": "responsibility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility" }, { "name": "guilt", "slug": "guilt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Heavenly_Fire_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:03" }, { "id": "ebc627ef-e383-490c-8b83-d07f5fdfbe84", "slug": "love-makes-us-liars", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-glass/love-makes-us-liars", "text": "\"Love makes us liars. The Seelie Queen told me that. So don't judge me for lying about how I feel. You do it too.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Glass", "slug": "city-of-glass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-glass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Glass_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:02" }, { "id": "406debe1-5e3e-4fdb-a7f8-0e7da1dadafe", "slug": "there-is-no-pretending", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-glass/there-is-no-pretending", "text": "\"There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Glass", "slug": "city-of-glass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-glass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "fidelity", "slug": "fidelity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fidelity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Glass_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:02" }, { "id": "8c9d1936-42f8-4e7e-a736-bc8fc66f6e54", "slug": "look-in-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/look-in-all", "text": "\"Look. In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there.\" \"Where's that?\" \"Wherever you were.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Ashes", "slug": "city-of-ashes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Ashes_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:01" }, { "id": "74de47c2-421b-43fe-ae14-bc776dbaa60c", "slug": "what-they-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/what-they-had", "text": "What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Ashes", "slug": "city-of-ashes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Ashes_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:01" }, { "id": "499ddc4b-3e54-4bb4-9818-4bbd6721cbea", "slug": "i-really-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/i-really-was", "text": "\"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.\" \"I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Ashes", "slug": "city-of-ashes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Ashes_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:01" }, { "id": "42de1bb4-4b89-4109-8fa1-16e8c0838a2a", "slug": "no-ive-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/no-ive-always", "text": "\"No. I've always known just who you are. 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And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me; how can she love in him what he has not?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:44" }, { "id": "261d6803-26e7-4d34-a498-b8b162238844", "slug": "if-i-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/byron-katie/loving-what-is/if-i-had", "text": "If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Byron Katie", "slug": "byron-katie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/byron-katie" }, "book": { "title": "Loving What Is", "slug": "loving-what-is", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/byron-katie/loving-what-is" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "prayer", "slug": "prayer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prayer" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Byron_Katie#Loving_What_Is:_Four_Questions_That_Can_Change_Your_Life_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:44" }, { "id": "1bc3e335-5d49-4a89-a86b-3f0c5ba4ee1c", "slug": "catherine-earnshaw-may", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/catherine-earnshaw-may", "text": "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe; I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "despair", "slug": "despair", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:44" }, { "id": "f046092a-da01-4b3c-9a59-c65d9985e582", "slug": "i-can-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/i-can-not", "text": "I can not express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but as my own being; so, don't talk of our separation again - it is impracticable.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "identity", "slug": "identity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:43" }, { "id": "3a65f03b-6849-45de-9d42-8c3465dfb12f", "slug": "she-seemed-almost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/she-seemed-almost", "text": "She seemed almost over fond of Mr. Linton; and even to his sister she showed plenty of affection. They were both very attentive to her comfort, certainly. It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:43" }, { "id": "24df37e6-a242-4147-8cf5-8fc7589171cf", "slug": "i-have-such", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/i-have-such", "text": "I have such faith in Linton's love that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn't wish to retaliate.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:43" }, { "id": "07db2150-2049-4e3e-9f06-d8ca8419e38a", "slug": "i-was-only", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/i-was-only", "text": "'I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emily Brontë", "slug": "emily-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Wuthering Heights", "slug": "wuthering-heights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "soul", "slug": "soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:43" }, { "id": "acd027cd-d289-4942-a7cf-86a7c46a6dbb", "slug": "the-one-thing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road/the-one-thing", "text": "\"The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "cormac-mccarthy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy" }, "book": { "title": "The Road", "slug": "the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:42" }, { "id": "291a23aa-0ca0-485e-8f1b-37696773adfe", "slug": "you-said-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road/you-said-you", "text": "You said you wouldn't ever leave me. I know. I’m sorry. You have my whole heart. You always did. You’re the best guy. You always were. If I’m not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I’ll talk to you. You’ll see.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "cormac-mccarthy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy" }, "book": { "title": "The Road", "slug": "the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "father", "slug": "father", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/father" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:42" }, { "id": "28e8050c-7b7f-42cd-a701-2ce0e3c6438e", "slug": "and-love-with", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild/and-love-with", "text": "And love, with a cursive capital 'L,' is merely sleight of hand, doled out by genetic edict in order to keep DNA flowing. It's all genetics. And beyond that, it's all just zeros and ones. But friendship, with an unpretentious lowercase 'f,' is real and right and valuable.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nick Sagan", "slug": "nick-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Idlewild", "slug": "idlewild", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Sagan#Idlewild_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:39" }, { "id": "155c3df9-ec28-4ac4-894a-059facf22752", "slug": "love-is-a-myth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big/love-is-a-myth", "text": "\"Love is a myth\", Grandfather Trout said. \"Like summer.\" \"What?\" \"In winter,\" Grandfather Trout said, \"summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Crowley", "slug": "john-crowley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley" }, "book": { "title": "Little, Big", "slug": "little-big", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-crowley/little-big" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Crowley#Little,_Big:_or,_The_Fairies'_Parliament_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:38" }, { "id": "cdf93bee-933b-46b8-881b-f7d61464554d", "slug": "love-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-h-conwell/acres-of-diamonds/love-is-the", "text": "Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Russell H. Conwell", "slug": "russell-h-conwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-h-conwell" }, "book": { "title": "Acres of Diamonds", "slug": "acres-of-diamonds", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-h-conwell/acres-of-diamonds" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "money", "slug": "money", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Conwell#Acres_of_Diamonds_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:36" }, { "id": "1e5052c3-1998-45b2-991c-d17f5cbb6b0e", "slug": "love-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/a-fine-and-private-place/love-is-not", "text": "Love is not an excuse for bad taste.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Peter S. Beagle", "slug": "peter-s-beagle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle" }, "book": { "title": "A Fine and Private Place", "slug": "a-fine-and-private-place", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/a-fine-and-private-place" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 232, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle#A_Fine_and_Private_Place_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:31" }, { "id": "eb9bbbf3-f165-4247-aa17-337abf9d04cb", "slug": "in-my-youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/in-my-youth", "text": "In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames. He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passim, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stefan Zweig", "slug": "stefan-zweig", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig" }, "book": { "title": "Beware of Pity", "slug": "beware-of-pity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig#Beware_of_Pity_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:29" }, { "id": "81d4201c-d7bf-4ac3-80dc-45f54a9002bd", "slug": "it-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/it-is-not", "text": "It is not the healthy, the confident, the proud, the joyous, the happy, that one must love - they have no need of one's love! Arrogant and indifferent, they accept love only as homage that is theirs to command, as their due. The devotion of another is to them a mere embellishment, an ornament for the hair, a bracelet on the arm, not the whole meaning and bliss of their lives. Only those with whom life has dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love. He who devotes his life to them atones to them for what life has taken from them. They alone know how to love and be loved as one should love - gratefully and humbly.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stefan Zweig", "slug": "stefan-zweig", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig" }, "book": { "title": "Beware of Pity", "slug": "beware-of-pity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "compassion", "slug": "compassion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig#Beware_of_Pity_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:29" }, { "id": "130b8768-be7d-4e0d-9457-cbac3a94d940", "slug": "the-union-of-opposites", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/the-union-of-opposites", "text": "The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stefan Zweig", "slug": "stefan-zweig", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig" }, "book": { "title": "Beware of Pity", "slug": "beware-of-pity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "relationships", "slug": "relationships", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig#Beware_of_Pity_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:29" }, { "id": "3e696a00-a793-4fec-b624-270e4c4177bb", "slug": "he-whispered-honey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/cosm/he-whispered-honey", "text": "He whispered, “Honey, it’s good ol’ love makes the world go round.” “Actually, it’s inertia.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gregory Benford", "slug": "gregory-benford", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford" }, "book": { "title": "Cosm", "slug": "cosm", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/cosm" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 303, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Cosm_(1998)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:24" }, { "id": "c6853ae2-6c3e-436c-a5bc-e22bb32f8bb4", "slug": "it-was-a-miracle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/it-was-a-miracle", "text": "\"It was a miracle — more than a miracle — when I found you, Melanie. Right now, if I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "The Host", "slug": "the-host", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 78, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#The_Host_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:18" }, { "id": "3df0c063-8c75-4fde-b977-8391fd483f7d", "slug": "what-was-it-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host/what-was-it-that", "text": "What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge? This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules — it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "The Host", "slug": "the-host", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/the-host" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 472, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#The_Host_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:18" }, { "id": "c346008d-bd78-47fb-b4d3-b334c74679dd", "slug": "how-did-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/how-did-people", "text": "How did people do this — swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had — with less than the absolute commitment Edward had given me?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Dawn", "slug": "breaking-dawn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 83, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Breaking_Dawn#5._Isle_Esme", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:17" }, { "id": "66f37243-cafe-4d78-ab76-fd966f2806ba", "slug": "when-you-loved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/when-you-loved", "text": "When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Dawn", "slug": "breaking-dawn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 2, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Breaking_Dawn#Preface", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:17" }, { "id": "081fdd76-9901-4869-affc-50d9350a9332", "slug": "dont-be-afraid", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/dont-be-afraid", "text": "\"Don't be afraid,\" I muttered. \"We belong together.\" I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Dawn", "slug": "breaking-dawn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 85, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#Breaking_Dawn_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:17" }, { "id": "9eac3562-7edb-4df4-9626-b046256b07c8", "slug": "once-you-cared", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/once-you-cared", "text": "Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "New Moon", "slug": "new-moon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 304, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "reason", "slug": "reason", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#New_Moon_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:16" }, { "id": "9aa556a8-c62a-4494-bbe3-8157e0f387cd", "slug": "for-almost-ninety", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/twilight/for-almost-ninety", "text": "\"For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours … all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "Twilight", "slug": "twilight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/twilight" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 304, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#Twilight_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:16" }, { "id": "4028a0fc-20e6-486a-8f2f-3b68a590bd05", "slug": "one-thing-i-truly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/one-thing-i-truly", "text": "One thing I truly knew — knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest — was how love gave someone the power to break you. I had been broken beyond repair.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "New Moon", "slug": "new-moon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 219, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#New_Moon_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:16" }, { "id": "27415ff7-4f52-42a7-a063-b1dddeb76749", "slug": "before-you-bella", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/before-you-bella", "text": "\"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephenie Meyer", "slug": "stephenie-meyer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer" }, "book": { "title": "New Moon", "slug": "new-moon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 514, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "longing", "slug": "longing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#New_Moon_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:16" }, { "id": "7d22881e-b97e-4d0a-9ac8-611e548c2b92", "slug": "love-is-like", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sherwood-anderson/winesburg-ohio/love-is-like", "text": "\"Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,\" he had said. \"You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sherwood Anderson", "slug": "sherwood-anderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sherwood-anderson" }, "book": { "title": "Winesburg, Ohio", "slug": "winesburg-ohio", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sherwood-anderson/winesburg-ohio" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "disappointment", "slug": "disappointment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson#Winesburg,_Ohio_(1919)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:13" }, { "id": "a5ee9e0a-9538-437e-9d95-5164bd7d6e9a", "slug": "true-love-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-l-carter/the-emperor-of-ocean-park/true-love-is-not", "text": "True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen L. 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I exist in case you need to be protected.)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "slug": "jonathan-safran-foer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer" }, "book": { "title": "Everything is Illuminated", "slug": "everything-is-illuminated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer#Everything_Is_Illuminated_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09" }, { "id": "4af173f7-c8dd-42ff-a8c2-b2ac0f2c26d1", "slug": "accepting-the-compromise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated/accepting-the-compromise", "text": "Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "slug": "jonathan-safran-foer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer" }, "book": { "title": "Everything is Illuminated", "slug": "everything-is-illuminated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "compromise", "slug": "compromise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compromise" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer#Everything_Is_Illuminated_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09" }, { "id": "da5066b1-ed02-4ea9-a8c8-789e8817d868", "slug": "i-keep-thinking", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kazuo-ishiguro/never-let-me-go/i-keep-thinking", "text": "I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. 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It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "Carrie", "slug": "carrie", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carrie_(novel)#Part_2:_Prom_Night", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:51" }, { "id": "99a14ba7-4de9-4a59-b747-0e679165c917", "slug": "a-loving-heart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/a-loving-heart", "text": "[A] loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "David Copperfield", "slug": "david-copperfield", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/david-copperfield" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "wisdom", "slug": "wisdom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Copperfield#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:45" }, { "id": "4164b94a-8bb2-498c-9c4c-f3ef610b84c5", "slug": "mystery-and-disappointment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/nicholas-nickleby/mystery-and-disappointment", "text": "Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are very often its powerful auxiliaries. \"Out of sight, out of mind,\" is well enough as a proverb applicable to cases of friendship, though absence is not always necessary to hollowness of heart even between friends, and truth and honesty, like precious stones, are perhaps most easily imitated at a distance, when the counterfeits often pass for real. 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I ask because I think you guard yourself against it.’ ‘Whether I do or don’t it doesn’t come easily to me.’ ‘I heartily agree that it oughtn’t to come too easily,’ Zina said, ‘but it seems to me that those who are serious about life – perhaps too serious – are slow to respond to certain changes in the climate of feeling. What I mean to say, Yakov Ivanovitch, is that it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is untitled to good fortune.’", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Bernard Malamud", "slug": "bernard-malamud", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud" }, "book": { "title": "The Fixer", "slug": "the-fixer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-malamud/the-fixer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "courage", "slug": "courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fixer#Part_Two", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:35" }, { "id": "8676b121-2397-4559-8eda-bb7d38d87beb", "slug": "i-should-also", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution/i-should-also", "text": "I should also point out that empathy, sympathy, and love are limitless resources, energies that never deplete, and at this time of dwindling fuels we should cherish and explore these inexhaustible inner resources more than ever", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Russell Brand", "slug": "russell-brand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand" }, "book": { "title": "Revolution", "slug": "revolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "empathy", "slug": "empathy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Brand#Revolution_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:27" }, { "id": "5732ec14-bc8e-483d-8259-17efd7e8f6c3", "slug": "it-could-be-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution/it-could-be-that", "text": "It could be that our longing for Revolution is like our longing for perfect love, the impulse we all have for union that was for so long met by religion. However we assign these yearnings, it is difficult to ignore the obvious need for change. Some of us will ascribe it to romantic love, some to consumerism, some to utopianism. It doesn’t really matter. 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Love is innate. We must be taught to hate, and now we must unlearn it, as the Buddhists say; let it burn, that which needs to burn, let it burn. The class system isn’t fair on them either, poor little sods—packed off to school, weaned on privatized maternity shopped in from a northern spinster. Trying to find love in the tangle of dismantled family. No one can be happy imbibing a poisoned brew. It’s poisonous for us all. They’ll gratefully sigh when we unlock them from their opulent penitentiaries, they’ll be grateful when their fallow lords and empty chambers feed the hungry and house the poor. They know contentment cannot be enjoyed when stolen. They need the Revolution as much as we do. The whole of human history is nothing new, the whole of your personal story is nothing true, you can do with it whatever you want to do—flick a switch, scratch the record off, look behind the veil. Anything you don’t want, discard; anything that hurts, let go. None of it’s real, you know—all that pain, all that regret, all that doubt, not thin enough, not a good enough mum, not a good enough son, not a good enough bum. You are enough; you’re enough; there’s nothing you can buy or try on that’s going to make you any better, because you couldn’t be any better than you are. Drag your past around if you like, an old dead decaying ox of what you think they might’ve thought or what might’ve been if you’d done what you ought. That which needs to burn, let it burn. If the idea doesn’t serve you, let it go. If it separates you from the moment, from others, from yourself, let it go.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Russell Brand", "slug": "russell-brand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand" }, "book": { "title": "Revolution", "slug": "revolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Brand#Revolution_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:27" }, { "id": "9e668ca9-abcc-4295-afd6-07093b3865af", "slug": "have-you-ever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution/have-you-ever", "text": "Have you ever tried to argue with someone who doesn’t want anything from you? It’s hard. Have you ever noticed in a row with someone that no longer loves you that you have no recourse?' No tools with which to bargain.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Russell Brand", "slug": "russell-brand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand" }, "book": { "title": "Revolution", "slug": "revolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "separation", "slug": "separation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Brand#Revolution_(2014)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:26" }, { "id": "0099a240-4315-4cf9-a378-3f13589e3abb", "slug": "i-received-an-impassioned", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/confessions-of-a-mask/i-received-an-impassioned", "text": "I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Yukio Mishima", "slug": "yukio-mishima", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima" }, "book": { "title": "Confessions of a Mask", "slug": "confessions-of-a-mask", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/confessions-of-a-mask" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 208, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima#Confessions_of_a_Mask_(1949)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:24" }, { "id": "eb0e9106-9c9e-4434-a23f-7cba110e729f", "slug": "even-the-pain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/excession/even-the-pain", "text": "Even the pain of what had felt on occasion like an irretrievably broken heart had consistently proved less lasting than she’d initially imagined and expected; the revelation that a boy’s taste was so grotesquely deficient he could prefer somebody else to her always reduced both the intensity and the duration of the anguish her heart demanded be endured to mark such a loss of regard.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Iain M. 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He had seen too many dead, dry eyes, too much air-blackened blood, too much fly-blown flesh, to be able to relate such ghastly truths to the nebulous ideas of honor and tradition that people claimed they were fighting for. Only the well-being of one loved person seemed really worth fighting for now; it was all that seemed real, all that could save his sanity.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Iain M. 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What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. 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It occupies the center and squeezes out your strength. If you work in the center and love to the side, you will love better in the long run, Shira. You will give more gracefully, without counting, and what you get, you will enjoy.\" (Malkah, six: WE KNOW TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Marge Piercy", "slug": "marge-piercy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy" }, "book": { "title": "He, She and It", "slug": "he-she-and-it", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marge_Piercy#He,_She_and_It_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:10" }, { "id": "6c229c6e-ad51-456c-93d8-edce96de784c", "slug": "i-never-wanted", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it/i-never-wanted", "text": "\"I never wanted to belong to anybody. 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Because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ann Brashares", "slug": "ann-brashares", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares" }, "book": { "title": "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", "slug": "the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" }, { "name": "anger", "slug": "anger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants#The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:54" }, { "id": "6edcf772-6fbd-41cf-9b08-6076e7eb9b5d", "slug": "i-made-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/i-made-man", "text": "I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stevie Smith", "slug": "stevie-smith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith" }, "book": { "title": "Selected Poems", "slug": "selected-poems", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stevie_Smith#Selected_Poems_(1962)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:54" }, { "id": "fc9d25b7-fdd8-4177-b75a-4f2e5f763a1e", "slug": "and-someplace-under", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants/and-someplace-under", "text": "And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ann Brashares", "slug": "ann-brashares", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares" }, "book": { "title": "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", "slug": "the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants#The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:53" }, { "id": "22bac9bf-2355-440b-8913-16be4827baa5", "slug": "he-had-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/he-had-not", "text": "He had not applauded, he had remained seated, but he had looked at her steadily. From the depths of eternity he had looked at her and Rosalind became immortal. If I could believe him, she thought, if only I could believe him!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Simone de Beauvoir", "slug": "simone-de-beauvoir", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir" }, "book": { "title": "All Men Are Mortal", "slug": "all-men-are-mortal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 30, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "immortality", "slug": "immortality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir#All_Men_are_Mortal_(1946)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:51" }, { "id": "e8218ec2-6ba4-4259-a329-5e9e4ece0605", "slug": "if-i-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/if-i-had", "text": "If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Simone de Beauvoir", "slug": "simone-de-beauvoir", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir" }, "book": { "title": "All Men Are Mortal", "slug": "all-men-are-mortal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 17, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir#All_Men_are_Mortal_(1946)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:50" }, { "id": "023a4451-70f0-4558-86d3-3125c603b9e3", "slug": "i-wanted-to-cry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/i-wanted-to-cry", "text": "I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Katherine Dunn", "slug": "katherine-dunn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn" }, "book": { "title": "Geek Love", "slug": "geek-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn#Geek_Love_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:50" }, { "id": "90002592-a1b1-4b95-9d43-c97b60565ade", "slug": "in-hatred-as-in-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-mask-of-apollo/in-hatred-as-in-love", "text": "In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Renault", "slug": "mary-renault", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault" }, "book": { "title": "The Mask of Apollo", "slug": "the-mask-of-apollo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-mask-of-apollo" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault#The_Mask_of_Apollo_(1966)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:49" }, { "id": "af339782-3178-4c3f-824f-3257540763a3", "slug": "each-man-in-his", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer/each-man-in-his", "text": "Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Renault", "slug": "mary-renault", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault" }, "book": { "title": "The Charioteer", "slug": "the-charioteer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 104, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "idealism", "slug": "idealism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/idealism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault#The_Charioteer_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:48" }, { "id": "6fb25ba4-e166-441f-890e-5e0dc3f83f81", "slug": "he-sees-himself", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer/he-sees-himself", "text": "He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Renault", "slug": "mary-renault", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault" }, "book": { "title": "The Charioteer", "slug": "the-charioteer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 104, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "falling in love", "slug": "falling-in-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault#The_Charioteer_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:48" }, { "id": "a1f8c08a-7a6e-4012-981d-bafb5bb5ceb1", "slug": "do-you-think", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/do-you-think", "text": "Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" }, { "name": "dignity", "slug": "dignity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "66179116-1ec0-460d-b1c9-a8176d70a136", "slug": "are-you-anything", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/are-you-anything", "text": "\"Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?\" I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full. \"Because,\" he said, \"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "longing", "slug": "longing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "614ae804-1653-4c89-be68-7c126a48fd59", "slug": "most-true-is-it-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/most-true-is-it-that", "text": "Most true is it that \"beauty is in the eye of the gazer.\" My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "34940935-c6ed-444e-89c0-4e88d2e18575", "slug": "my-bride-is-here", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/my-bride-is-here", "text": "My bride is here... because my equal is here, and my likeness.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "equality", "slug": "equality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "e645c582-b6f1-4075-aac7-d4205d458763", "slug": "of-all-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson/of-all-the", "text": "Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Beerbohm", "slug": "max-beerbohm", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm" }, "book": { "title": "Zuleika Dobson", "slug": "zuleika-dobson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Beerbohm#Zuleika_Dobson_(1911)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:40" }, { "id": "6f84cc5a-7ff8-4853-b927-211c946d0b83", "slug": "your-mother-died", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone/your-mother-died", "text": "Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J.K. 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I would go on loving.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Yann Martel", "slug": "yann-martel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel" }, "book": { "title": "Life Of Pi", "slug": "life-of-pi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 232, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "despair", "slug": "despair", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yann_Martel#Life_of_Pi_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:03" }, { "id": "7de714c5-0f82-4820-80ba-0a3a9d8a175d", "slug": "dont-you-bully", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi/dont-you-bully", "text": "Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Yann Martel", "slug": "yann-martel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel" }, "book": { "title": "Life Of Pi", "slug": "life-of-pi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 330, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "science", "slug": "science", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science" }, { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yann_Martel#Life_of_Pi_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:03" }, { "id": "5dcf3b0d-7fb8-41df-bd13-c20f0876fd71", "slug": "if-you-stumble", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi/if-you-stumble", "text": "If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Yann Martel", "slug": "yann-martel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel" }, "book": { "title": "Life Of Pi", "slug": "life-of-pi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/yann-martel/life-of-pi" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 330, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yann_Martel#Life_of_Pi_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:03" }, { "id": "fcd35e7e-8d63-44f4-b199-a37e41549bc1", "slug": "a-book-a-woman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-a-woman", "text": "A book, a woman, and a flask of wine: The three make heaven for me; it may be thine Is some sour place of singing cold and bare — But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Omar Khayyam", "slug": "omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam" }, "book": { "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 32, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "reading", "slug": "reading", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading" }, { "name": "alcohol", "slug": "alcohol", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol" }, { "name": "paradise", "slug": "paradise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#Le_Gallienne,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1897,_1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:01" }, { "id": "586d62ec-69d5-41cb-bdb5-92a0b7798673", "slug": "ah-love-could", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/ah-love-could", "text": "Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Omar Khayyam", "slug": "omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam" }, "book": { "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fate", "slug": "fate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate" }, { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:01" }, { "id": "da8a7b2d-3349-472b-a812-f966556167cc", "slug": "youve-got-to-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/youve-got-to-have", "text": "You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Billie Holiday", "slug": "billie-holiday", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday" }, "book": { "title": "Lady Sings the Blues", "slug": "lady-sings-the-blues", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "morality", "slug": "morality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality" }, { "name": "hunger", "slug": "hunger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hunger" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday#Lady_Sings_the_Blues_(1956)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59" }, { "id": "d7375b3f-1cc5-4536-9a0b-b52c20bec26e", "slug": "a-book-of-verses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-of-verses", "text": "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Omar Khayyam", "slug": "omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam" }, "book": { "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "poetry", "slug": "poetry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry" }, { "name": "paradise", "slug": "paradise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59" }, { "id": "0f60df74-966e-49e9-9970-3220b8d27e36", "slug": "in-this-country", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/in-this-country", "text": "In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Billie Holiday", "slug": "billie-holiday", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday" }, "book": { "title": "Lady Sings the Blues", "slug": "lady-sings-the-blues", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "addiction", "slug": "addiction-2", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction-2" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday#Lady_Sings_the_Blues_(1956)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59" }, { "id": "6ecdc816-ea39-4c37-9d1f-3ebd42b362b7", "slug": "foolishness-ulric-skakki", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/foolishness-ulric-skakki", "text": "“Foolishness,” Ulric Skakki said. “Everything that goes on between men and women is full of foolishness.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harry Turtledove", "slug": "harry-turtledove", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove" }, "book": { "title": "Beyond the Gap", "slug": "beyond-the-gap", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 76, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "stupidity", "slug": "stupidity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Beyond_the_Gap_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:57" }, { "id": "3dc27e35-5bf9-4615-8bee-a995b3c14667", "slug": "he-thought-she", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/he-thought-she", "text": "He thought she was the most wonderful woman in the world. Of course he did—she agreed with him.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harry Turtledove", "slug": "harry-turtledove", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove" }, "book": { "title": "Beyond the Gap", "slug": "beyond-the-gap", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 142, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "selfishness", "slug": "selfishness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Beyond_the_Gap_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:57" }, { "id": "c40117e8-30ee-4d2a-b5d6-377425e06480", "slug": "he-spent-years", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-blood-and-iron/he-spent-years", "text": "He spent years alternately chasing her and trying—always without much luck—to get her out of his mind. Now that he’d finally got her, finally found out just how much woman she was, losing her was the last thing he wanted. But two had to say yes. One was plenty for no.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harry Turtledove", "slug": "harry-turtledove", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove" }, "book": { "title": "American Empire: Blood and Iron", "slug": "american-empire-blood-and-iron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-blood-and-iron" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 45, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#American_Empire:_The_Center_Cannot_Hold_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:50" }, { "id": "73571cfa-a521-43ed-a6d1-6d5ac5bc82d2", "slug": "there-was-he-remembered", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/agent-of-byzantium/there-was-he-remembered", "text": "There was, he remembered, far more to love than what went on in bed, but that had its place too.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harry Turtledove", "slug": "harry-turtledove", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove" }, "book": { "title": "Agent of Byzantium", "slug": "agent-of-byzantium", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/agent-of-byzantium" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 281, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sex", "slug": "sex", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Agent_of_Byzantium_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:46" }, { "id": "18248e36-6555-4415-98c3-7dcfc41cd0e0", "slug": "you-are-part", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations/you-are-part", "text": "You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since, — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "Great Expectations", "slug": "great-expectations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Great_Expectations_(1860-1861)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:43" }, { "id": "149b17c6-35f6-4249-855b-010b7a36d28f", "slug": "if-you-could", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son/if-you-could", "text": "If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "Dombey and Son", "slug": "dombey-and-son", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Dombey_and_Son_(1846-1848)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:41" }, { "id": "e399b4e2-dd66-4320-ad32-a8f0edfaf72b", "slug": "but-truth-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/slow-man/but-truth-is-not", "text": "But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. M. 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What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. M. 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To some degree, he believes, this affection is reciprocated. Affection may not be love, but it is at least its cousin.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. M. 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Tepper", "slug": "sheri-s-tepper", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper" }, "book": { "title": "Dervish Daughter", "slug": "dervish-daughter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/dervish-daughter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 206, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Dervish_Daughter_(1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:19" }, { "id": "d3f48f56-8666-4632-886b-55f88a1c015d", "slug": "that-faculty-of-beholding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/that-faculty-of-beholding", "text": "That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Conrad", "slug": "joseph-conrad", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad" }, "book": { "title": "Lord Jim", "slug": "lord-jim", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "dreams and aspirations", "slug": "dreams-and-aspirations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations" }, { "name": "adventure", "slug": "adventure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:16" }, { "id": "b91047fa-ee3d-4f8f-ba8a-469ee8a12adc", "slug": "history-like-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/history-like-love", "text": "History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Fenimore Cooper", "slug": "james-fenimore-cooper", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper" }, "book": { "title": "The Last of the Mohicans", "slug": "the-last-of-the-mohicans", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "history", "slug": "history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history" }, { "name": "heroism", "slug": "heroism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/heroism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper#The_Last_of_the_Mohicans_(1826)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:15" }, { "id": "984855c4-717c-4aa5-91bc-0caaabad7177", "slug": "i-wish-to-live", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black/i-wish-to-live", "text": "I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lorraine Hansberry", "slug": "lorraine-hansberry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry" }, "book": { "title": "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", "slug": "to-be-young-gifted-and-black", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 100, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry#To_Be_Young,_Gifted_and_Black_(1969)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:15" }, { "id": "f19c29a1-74ce-4f3a-9d73-da1baf6e8d3e", "slug": "there-is-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/a-raisin-in-the-sun/there-is-always", "text": "There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lorraine Hansberry", "slug": "lorraine-hansberry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry" }, "book": { "title": "A Raisin in the Sun", "slug": "a-raisin-in-the-sun", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/a-raisin-in-the-sun" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "empathy", "slug": "empathy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy" }, { "name": "judging others", "slug": "judging-others", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/judging-others" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry#A_Raisin_in_the_Sun_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:14" }, { "id": "31ec6137-defe-4b36-b3f8-121f5a203dbc", "slug": "those-whom-we-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eldest/those-whom-we-love", "text": "Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Paolini", "slug": "christopher-paolini", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini" }, "book": { "title": "Eldest", "slug": "eldest", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-paolini/eldest" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "family", "slug": "family", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Paolini#Eldest_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:14" }, { "id": "5474224e-13ff-4b79-bf96-4034a9b94db4", "slug": "the-collective-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology/the-collective-is-the", "text": "The collective is the object of all idolatry, this it is which chains us to the earth. In the case of avarice: gold is of the social order. In the case of ambition: power is of the social order. Science and art are full of the social element also. And love? Love is more or less of an exception: that is why we can go to God through love, not through avarice and ambition.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Simone Weil", "slug": "simone-weil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil" }, "book": { "title": "Simone Weil: An Anthology", "slug": "simone-weil-an-anthology", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 121, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "society", "slug": "society", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society" }, { "name": "ambition", "slug": "ambition", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition" }, { "name": "greed", "slug": "greed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil#The_Great_Beast_(1947)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:13" }, { "id": "d53ca278-14b8-4c15-a4b2-49b1e4ee773e", "slug": "no-in-fairy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand/cyrano-de-bergerac/no-in-fairy", "text": "No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says \"I love you!\" all his ugliness fades fast — But I remain the same, up to the last!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edmond Rostand", "slug": "edmond-rostand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand" }, "book": { "title": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "slug": "cyrano-de-bergerac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand/cyrano-de-bergerac" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "appearance", "slug": "appearance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearance" }, { "name": "ugliness", "slug": "ugliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ugliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand#Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(1897)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:12" }, { "id": "3127e64b-7862-4a03-bc6c-3014ed578dc9", "slug": "i-loved-but", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand/cyrano-de-bergerac/i-loved-but", "text": "I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edmond Rostand", "slug": "edmond-rostand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand" }, "book": { "title": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "slug": "cyrano-de-bergerac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand/cyrano-de-bergerac" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loss", "slug": "loss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand#Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(1897)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:12" }, { "id": "69bfb3f2-c985-4ee7-9f59-442511d88174", "slug": "there-was-no-shame", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred/there-was-no-shame", "text": "There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one. (p124)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Octavia E. Butler", "slug": "octavia-e-butler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler" }, "book": { "title": "Kindred", "slug": "kindred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "racism", "slug": "racism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/racism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Kindred_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:09" }, { "id": "be314fd3-df7f-450f-a89f-a196ed2a10ad", "slug": "which-was-what", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise/which-was-what", "text": "Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Toni Morrison", "slug": "toni-morrison", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise", "slug": "paradise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Paradise_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:03" }, { "id": "3c2eeb44-08b0-4683-b288-4771846ef833", "slug": "let-me-tell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise/let-me-tell", "text": "Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated? You don't. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me? God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course, at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives, their cleaving won't mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Toni Morrison", "slug": "toni-morrison", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise", "slug": "paradise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/paradise" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Paradise_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:03" }, { "id": "fb224d14-5bc2-48ac-b101-4d084f20fe12", "slug": "pretty-woman-he-thought", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/song-of-solomon/pretty-woman-he-thought", "text": "Pretty woman, he thought. Pretty little black-skinned woman. Who wanted to kill for love, die for love. The pride, the conceit of these doormat women amazed him. They were always women who had been spoiled children. Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. They could not believe or accept the fact that they were unloved; they believed that the world itself was off balance when it appeared as though they were not loved. Why did they think they were so lovable? Why did they think their brand of love was better than, or even as good as, anybody else's? But they did. 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Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "James Baldwin", "slug": "james-baldwin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin" }, "book": { "title": "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone", "slug": "tell-me-how-long-the-trains-been-gone", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/tell-me-how-long-the-trains-been-gone" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin#Tell_Me_How_Long_the_Train's_Been_Gone_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:59" }, { "id": "ddf8137c-86f2-4c74-8ba0-842627d731ad", "slug": "love-him-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/love-him-said", "text": "'Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last, since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, helas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty — they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty, you can give each other something which will make both of you better — forever — if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe. He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. 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For that there would have to be infinite love as well.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Walter M. Miller Jr.", "slug": "walter-m-miller-jr", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr" }, "book": { "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz", "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr.#Fiat_Lux", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:41" }, { "id": "7e7b22f1-e61a-40b9-af3e-f9c5bc33cbfe", "slug": "you-can-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/half-asleep-in-frog-pajamas/you-can-love", "text": "You can love ‘em till your well runs dry, Belford, but you can never love ‘em enough, and you know it. No matter how much others might love you, you can’t love yourself unless you’re in charge of your own actions, and you’ll never take charge as long as you can get away with blaming your shortcomings and misfortunes on your family or society or your race or gender or Satan or whatever…", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tom Robbins", "slug": "tom-robbins", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins" }, "book": { "title": "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas", "slug": "half-asleep-in-frog-pajamas", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/half-asleep-in-frog-pajamas" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "responsibility", "slug": "responsibility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Half_Asleep_in_Frog_Pajamas_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:38" }, { "id": "daf84fa4-e433-4840-8ef5-9e691421998f", "slug": "love-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/still-life-with-woodpecker/love-is-the", "text": "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. 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Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning or an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. 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And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. 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He never game a name to it, and never spoke of it. And never, never would he have allowed himself or anyone to call it – love", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alice Borchardt", "slug": "alice-borchardt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt" }, "book": { "title": "The Dragon Queen", "slug": "the-dragon-queen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Borchardt#The_Dragon_Queen", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:35" }, { "id": "abc81ae5-0145-4868-a558-810a6eb98901", "slug": "what-if-sometimes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest/what-if-sometimes", "text": "What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Foster Wallace", "slug": "david-foster-wallace", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace" }, "book": { "title": "Infinite Jest", "slug": "infinite-jest", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Infinite_Jest_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:35" }, { "id": "f84c1472-241b-4eaf-848f-68308afd91bf", "slug": "he-was-magnificent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-was-magnificent", "text": "He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever brought me more sorrow or pain or joy than he did. No, nothing, not even my sons, has ever outweighed the love I feel and still feel for him. 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Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Hardy", "slug": "thomas-hardy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy" }, "book": { "title": "Jude the Obscure", "slug": "jude-the-obscure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/jude-the-obscure" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy#Jude_the_Obscure_(1895)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:03" }, { "id": "10975f0b-5e9d-4567-8b40-6fc2b7499c94", "slug": "see-what-deceits", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/two-on-a-tower/see-what-deceits", "text": "See what deceits love sows in honest minds!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Hardy", "slug": "thomas-hardy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy" }, "book": { "title": "Two on a Tower", "slug": "two-on-a-tower", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/two-on-a-tower" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy#Two_on_a_Tower_(1882)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:01" }, { "id": "fc83441f-fc77-4ad1-a44a-0ef1f80eedba", "slug": "a-lover-without", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-hand-of-ethelberta/a-lover-without", "text": "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. 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Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Walter Scott", "slug": "walter-scott", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott" }, "book": { "title": "Waverley", "slug": "waverley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/waverley" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "indifference", "slug": "indifference", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Scott#Waverley_(1814)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:48" }, { "id": "b8f8b981-b1fa-47ea-bd75-aabd42b608fd", "slug": "and-is-anybody", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto/and-is-anybody", "text": "And is anybody unhappy about another, unless they are in love with them?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Horace Walpole", "slug": "horace-walpole", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/horace-walpole" }, "book": { "title": "The Castle of Otranto", "slug": "the-castle-of-otranto", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole#The_Castle_of_Otranto_(1764)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:46" }, { "id": "758608a8-6f31-4f14-8158-f82f900f80bd", "slug": "course-i-care", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-garner/the-childrens-bach/course-i-care", "text": "'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? There's only one thing that'll bring 'em back, and that's indifference. The one thing you can't fake.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Helen Garner", "slug": "helen-garner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-garner" }, "book": { "title": "The Children's Bach", "slug": "the-childrens-bach", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-garner/the-childrens-bach" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 80, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "indifference", "slug": "indifference", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Garner#The_Children's_Bach_(1984)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:44" }, { "id": "1a371cae-084b-46ca-bb5a-dc6980bdf688", "slug": "no-man-is-offended", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/no-man-is-offended", "text": "No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment., p. 302, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 19", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Northanger Abbey", "slug": "northanger-abbey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey#Volume_2,_Chapter_4", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:44" }, { "id": "02077ef6-de4c-4ecc-b6a1-eb075ef77f93", "slug": "the-mere-habit", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/the-mere-habit", "text": "The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Northanger Abbey", "slug": "northanger-abbey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "upbringing", "slug": "upbringing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey#Volume_2,_Chapter_7", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:44" }, { "id": "57c59b99-1f3e-4b44-b07b-db982abbd0db", "slug": "it-is-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson/gilead/it-is-one", "text": "It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Marilynne Robinson", "slug": "marilynne-robinson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson" }, "book": { "title": "Gilead", "slug": "gilead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilynne-robinson/gilead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "empathy", "slug": "empathy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marilynne_Robinson#Gilead_(2004)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:42" }, { "id": "57594d8e-536b-4f03-9b90-7acab0a329e2", "slug": "you-care-for", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice/you-care-for", "text": "\"You care for me a little bit, I do think,\" he admitted, \"but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "E.M. Forster", "slug": "em-forster", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster" }, "book": { "title": "Maurice", "slug": "maurice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maurice_(novel)#Part_Four", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:38" }, { "id": "3390eea5-662a-4003-9f76-690b7b44ce0c", "slug": "love-was-an-emotion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice/love-was-an-emotion", "text": "Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "E.M. 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Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "E.M. 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I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "E.M. 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It is no way to live, to wait to love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dave Eggers", "slug": "dave-eggers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers" }, "book": { "title": "What Is the What", "slug": "what-is-the-what", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/what-is-the-what" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 317, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#What_is_the_What:_The_Autobiography_of_Valentino_Achak_Deng_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:52" }, { "id": "7bc5809e-f0e8-4a63-a44b-28c38570fda5", "slug": "when-we-pass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/when-we-pass", "text": "When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dave Eggers", "slug": "dave-eggers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers" }, "book": { "title": "You Shall Know Our Velocity", "slug": "you-shall-know-our-velocity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#You_Shall_Know_Our_Velocity!_(2002)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:52" }, { "id": "0ce7ce08-4160-40c0-8bb6-0468ea217f89", "slug": "i-understood-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar/i-understood-that", "text": "I understood that it was only the very best in us, our capacity for love and self-respect, that enabled us to survive in a perpetually fragmenting multiverse. Only our deepest sense of justice allowed us to remain sane and relish the wonders of chaotic Time and Space, to be free at least of fear. Further violence would bring only an endless chain of bloodshed and an inevitable descent of our race into bestiality and ultimate insentience. To survive, we must love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Steel Tsar", "slug": "the-steel-tsar", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 388, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "survival", "slug": "survival", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Steel_Tsar_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:44" }, { "id": "a700e21d-e2e8-4d2d-b568-2d3adc4e444d", "slug": "it-is-your", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-knight-of-the-swords/it-is-your", "text": "“It is your capacity for love that makes you strong, Prince Corum.” “And my capacity for hate?” “That directs your strength.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Knight of the Swords", "slug": "the-knight-of-the-swords", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-knight-of-the-swords" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 148, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Knight_of_the_Swords_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:39" }, { "id": "1483d02c-d722-476a-8f96-a5f124cce88f", "slug": "the-sentient-may", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-knight-of-the-swords/the-sentient-may", "text": "The sentient may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentient.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Knight of the Swords", "slug": "the-knight-of-the-swords", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-knight-of-the-swords" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 9, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "the universe", "slug": "the-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Knight_of_the_Swords_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:39" }, { "id": "1180ceb6-5876-4de4-9fcc-a0705aaa9f5b", "slug": "there-must-be-countless", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion/there-must-be-countless", "text": "There must be countless forms of love. Which is the form which conquers the rest? I cannot define it. I shall not try.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Michael Moorcock", "slug": "michael-moorcock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock" }, "book": { "title": "The Eternal Champion", "slug": "the-eternal-champion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 91, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Eternal_Champion_(1970)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:38" }, { "id": "daaaf1ee-fc09-49d1-8fa7-65fbb54a71d9", "slug": "she-had-a-kind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/she-had-a-kind", "text": "She had a kind of genius for picking the wrong man. She always looked for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole romantic kitchen, whereas I lived by a simpler diet, prose and pudding. I don’t expect attractive men to have attractive souls.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Fowles", "slug": "john-fowles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles" }, "book": { "title": "Daniel Martin", "slug": "daniel-martin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Fowles#Daniel_Martin_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:31" }, { "id": "d4554dd7-611e-42f5-8a02-2e59c5ef9057", "slug": "to-love-someone", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock/to-love-someone", "text": "To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Diana Wynne Jones", "slug": "diana-wynne-jones", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones" }, "book": { "title": "Fire and Hemlock", "slug": "fire-and-hemlock", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 392, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jones#Fire_and_Hemlock_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:27" }, { "id": "c74c3bb2-3e12-4ce7-8259-e2d7cfe93c92", "slug": "let-your-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice/let-your-love", "text": "Let your love flow out on all living things. These words at some level have the quality of a strapping homily. Nonetheless, they are remarkably beautiful, strung together in their honest lump-like English syllables... Let your love flow out on all living things. But there are a couple of problems with this precept of mine. The first is, of course, that it is not mine. It springs from the universe and is the property of God, and the words have been intercepted — on the wing, so to speak — by such mediators as Lao-tzu, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and thousands upon thousands of lesser prophets, including your narrator, who heard the terrible truth of their drumming somewhere between Baltimore and Wilmington and set them down with the fury of a madman sculpting in stone.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Styron", "slug": "william-styron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron" }, "book": { "title": "Sophie's Choice", "slug": "sophies-choice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Styron#Sophie's_Choice_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:26" }, { "id": "4f2fc7f0-a7b9-46c5-99b2-87697d7ad87f", "slug": "i-have-found", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/i-have-found", "text": "I have found always that the pattern of our guild is repeated [...] in the societies of every trade, so that they are all of them torturers, just as we. His quarry stands to the hunter as our clients to us; those who buy to the tradesman; the enemies of the Commonwealth to the soldier; the governed to the governors; men to women. 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We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel R. 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When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah, well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, shapes, sizes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. 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No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary McCarthy", "slug": "mary-mccarthy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy" }, "book": { "title": "The Group", "slug": "the-group", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy/the-group" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_McCarthy#The_Group_(1963)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:57" }, { "id": "6a0d20e3-df70-42c2-a1a5-0511985af22d", "slug": "y-ou-have-to-live", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy/the-group/y-ou-have-to-live", "text": "[Y]ou have to live without 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But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 660, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "individualism", "slug": "individualism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_IV_(_Howard_Roark_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09" }, { "id": "d93c7913-be7b-45a0-bd9d-72caf4b9eb79", "slug": "i-love-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/i-love-you", "text": "\"I love you, Dominique. I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference. I've never taken much from the world. I haven't wanted much. I've never really wanted anything. Not in the total, undivided way, not with the kind of desire that becomes an ultimatum, 'yes' or 'no,' and one can't accept the 'no' without ceasing to exist. That's what you are to me. But when one reaches that stage, it's not the object that matters, it's the desire. Not you, but I. The ability to desire like that. Nothing less is worth feeling or honoring. And I've never felt that before. Dominique, I've never known how to say 'mine' about anything. Not in the sense I say it about you. Mine. Did you call it a sense of life as exaltation? You said that. You understand. I can't be afraid. I love you, Dominique—I love you—you're letting me say it now—I love you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 538, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sexual desire", "slug": "sexual-desire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_III_(_Gail_Wynand_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09" }, { "id": "a47c522d-de1e-4cf3-9599-5434a2c943c1", "slug": "if-one-doesnt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/if-one-doesnt", "text": "\"If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 660, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "self-esteem", "slug": "self-esteem", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-esteem" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_IV_(_Howard_Roark_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09" }, { "id": "93fa533e-e565-492d-a834-c6e616f935f9", "slug": "love-is-exception-making", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/love-is-exception-making", "text": "\" [...] love is exception-making.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 532, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_III_(_Gail_Wynand_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09" }, { "id": "3f832535-24b0-4eef-9d81-3882962538d3", "slug": "what-you-feel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/what-you-feel", "text": "\"What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance. And that 'Yes' is more than an answer to one thing, it's a kind of 'Amen' to life, to the earth that holds this thing, to the thought that created it, to yourself for being able to see it. But the ability to say 'Yes' or 'No' is the essence of all ownership. It's your ownership of your own ego. Your soul, if you wish. Your soul has a single basic function—the act of valuing. 'Yes' or 'No,' 'I wish' or 'I do not wish.' You can't say 'Yes' without saying 'I.' There's no affirmation without the one who affirms. In this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours. [...] \"Howard, that 'Yes'—once granted, can it be withdrawn?\" \"Never.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 539, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "soul", "slug": "soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_IV_(_Howard_Roark_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09" }, { "id": "eb0d0874-dd72-4187-a942-5038c602edd2", "slug": "we-never-need", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/we-never-need", "text": "\"We never need to say anything to each other when we're together. This is—for the time when we won't be together. I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breath air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way you can wish to be loved. This is the only way I can want you to love me. If you married me now, I would become your whole existence. But I would not want you then. You would not want yourself—and so you would not love me long. To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I'. The kind of surrender I could have from you now would give me nothing but an empty hulk. If I demanded it, I'd destroy you. That's why I won't stop you. I'll let you go to your husband. I don't know how I'll live through tonight, but I will. I want you whole, as I am, as you'll remain in the battle you've chosen. A battle is never selfless. [...] You must learn not to be afraid of the world. Not to be held by it as you are now. Never to be hurt by it as you were in that courtroom. I must let you learn it. I can't help you. You must find your own way. When you have, you'll come back to me. They won't destroy me, Dominique. And they won't destroy you. You'll win, because you've chosen the hardest way of fighting for your freedom from the world. I'll wait for you. I love you. I'm saying this now for all the years we'll have to wait. I love you, Dominique.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 400, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "selfishness", "slug": "selfishness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_II_(_Ellsworth_M._Toohey_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:08" }, { "id": "d2548d7e-8ad5-4cc5-af15-a18aa90126ef", "slug": "love-is-reverence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/love-is-reverence", "text": "\" [...] love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it—the total passion for the total height—you're incapable of anything less.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 476, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_III_(_Gail_Wynand_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:08" }, { "id": "b1c0a225-d20f-4c71-b132-a9562c73bd74", "slug": "one-cant-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/one-cant-love", "text": "\"One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially. Except when one doesn't know that sacrilege has been committed. Because one doesn't know God.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 476, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_III_(_Gail_Wynand_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:08" }, { "id": "4b802278-cddd-4ca2-9e00-05b9604e3567", "slug": "youre-called-a-hater", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/youre-called-a-hater", "text": "\"You're called a hater of humanity, Mrs. Keating, because you've committed the crime of knowing a love humanity has not learned to deserve.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "The Fountainhead", "slug": "the-fountainhead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 476, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_III_(_Gail_Wynand_)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:08" }, { "id": "a44098c5-61a1-4da9-bc45-3f1ce5194ec4", "slug": "what-else-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus/paracelsus/what-else-is-the", "text": "What else is the help of medicine than love?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Paracelsus", "slug": "paracelsus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus" }, "book": { "title": "Paracelsus", "slug": "paracelsus", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus/paracelsus" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "medicine", "slug": "medicine", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/medicine" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paracelsus#Paracelsus_-_Doctor_of_our_Time_(1992)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:07" }, { "id": "6653ea19-f349-4377-85d9-9c67d2c8649c", "slug": "loving-someone-is-like", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/first-person-singular/loving-someone-is-like", "text": "Loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "First Person Singular", "slug": "first-person-singular", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/first-person-singular" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 37, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#First_Person_Singular_(2021)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:04" }, { "id": "4e554ba4-4ae8-45a8-b983-e2d861f96dc3", "slug": "what-i-want", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke/what-i-want", "text": "What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Choke", "slug": "choke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Choke_(novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:04" }, { "id": "d6c93b7e-fcfc-4e63-822b-436a39f50237", "slug": "losing-you-is-most", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/losing-you-is-most", "text": "Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", "slug": "hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:01" }, { "id": "446262c6-0d85-4a99-a309-12a747542314", "slug": "fairness-is-a-concept", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/fairness-is-a-concept", "text": "Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", "slug": "hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "justice", "slug": "justice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:01" }, { "id": "6ad51400-6e90-44e1-8327-a2f7c40a09a2", "slug": "what-is-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/four-ways-to-forgiveness/what-is-one", "text": "What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ursula K. 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[...] I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ursula K. 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[...] Love is the height of selfishness: the self attempts to enrich itself through the absorption of another being. Love is being psychically wide-open to another. It is a situation of total emotional vulnerability. Therefore it must be not only the incorporation of the other, but an exchange of selves. Anything short of a mutual exchange will hurt one or the other party. There is nothing inherently destructive about this process. A little healthy selfishness would be a refreshing change. Love between two equals would be an enrichment, each enlarging himself through the other: instead of being one, locked in the cell of himself with only his own experience and view, he could participate in the existence of another – an extra window on the world. This accounts for the bliss that successful lovers experience: lovers are temporarily freed from the burden of isolation that every individual bears.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Shulamith Firestone", "slug": "shulamith-firestone", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone" }, "book": { "title": "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution", "slug": "the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 128, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "selfishness", "slug": "selfishness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shulamith_Firestone#Chapter_Six", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:39" }, { "id": "b6117637-564d-4128-b88b-67ecc925c8d1", "slug": "love-has-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/love-has-never", "text": "Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Shulamith Firestone", "slug": "shulamith-firestone", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone" }, "book": { "title": "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution", "slug": "the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 126, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shulamith_Firestone#Chapter_Six", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:39" }, { "id": "7dc60254-54b7-4ca8-a93f-338d9e415e5c", "slug": "a-book-on-radical", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/a-book-on-radical", "text": "A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. 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It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Diane Ackerman", "slug": "diane-ackerman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diane-ackerman" }, "book": { "title": "A Natural History of Love", "slug": "a-natural-history-of-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diane-ackerman/a-natural-history-of-love" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diane_Ackerman#A_Natural_History_of_Love_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:35" }, { "id": "2530dfea-1371-4984-849a-4748bfcfada8", "slug": "when-art-separates", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diane-ackerman/a-natural-history-of-love/when-art-separates", "text": "When art separates this thick tangle of feelings, love bares its bones.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Diane Ackerman", "slug": "diane-ackerman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diane-ackerman" }, "book": { "title": "A Natural History of Love", "slug": "a-natural-history-of-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/diane-ackerman/a-natural-history-of-love" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diane_Ackerman#A_Natural_History_of_Love_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:35" }, { "id": "93ab822d-a5be-4977-b7eb-ac57a1563127", "slug": "children-were-meant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/memories-of-ice/children-were-meant", "text": "Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Steven Erikson", "slug": "steven-erikson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson" }, "book": { "title": "Memories of Ice", "slug": "memories-of-ice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/memories-of-ice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "children", "slug": "children", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Erikson#Memories_of_Ice_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:30" }, { "id": "fd38f2a2-aa1f-4ba6-b0a8-7099bfb74a83", "slug": "i-believe-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/another-turn-of-the-crank/i-believe-that", "text": "I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wendell Berry", "slug": "wendell-berry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry" }, "book": { "title": "Another Turn of the Crank", "slug": "another-turn-of-the-crank", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/another-turn-of-the-crank" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry#Another_Turn_of_the_Crank_(1996)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:22" }, { "id": "1fe1cfa7-a396-4312-a543-43ece3e87a1d", "slug": "we-know-enough", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/life-is-a-miracle/we-know-enough", "text": "We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. 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They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. 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His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values, he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attract him. He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worthy of enjoying.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Atlas Shrugged", "slug": "atlas-shrugged", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 490, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sex", "slug": "sex", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_Four:_The_Sanction_of_the_Victim", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:51" }, { "id": "bff4e742-1e5c-4492-bf97-bd578642ae0a", "slug": "all-the-privilege", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion/all-the-privilege", "text": "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Persuasion", "slug": "persuasion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Persuasion_(novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:48" }, { "id": "b9fd321e-a43a-41e3-93f0-a19306a17a23", "slug": "you-pierce-my-soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion/you-pierce-my-soul", "text": "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. 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Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:09" }, { "id": "b28a9ae4-fbf4-4ef8-88dd-c639d472646a", "slug": "the-punishment-of-those", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/the-punishment-of-those", "text": "The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:09" }, { "id": "b52b64a2-2009-4363-bc77-4334083d35c7", "slug": "it-is-impossible", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/it-is-impossible", "text": "It is impossible to love the same person twice.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:06" }, { "id": "16fef863-e6af-4f48-b4e2-aa2089c571e5", "slug": "can-you-honestly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent/can-you-honestly", "text": "Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent", "slug": "the-winter-of-our-discontent", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#The_Winter_of_Our_Discontent_(1961)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:01" }, { "id": "df7ccce4-9eaa-41b7-b55c-0df9f92f6dd4", "slug": "with-a-few", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/with-a-few", "text": "With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 538, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "money", "slug": "money", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_4", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:00" }, { "id": "c9bca0a0-23ec-4743-8c7d-50fb6b8be396", "slug": "mordeen-said-i-used", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/burning-bright/mordeen-said-i-used", "text": "Mordeen said: \"I used to wonder why this love seemed sweeter than I had ever known, better than many people ever know. And then one day the reason came to me. There are very few great Anythings in the world. In work and art and emotion—the great is very rare. And I have one of the great and beautiful. Now say your yah, yah, Victor, like a child unanswerably answering Wisdom. 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Made love! Preposterous euphemism for fucking, almost as bad as the most grotesque of all, slept together. Whatever Sundara and I made, in those three pressings of flesh to flesh, love couldn’t have been the commodity; we made sweat, we made rumpled sheets, we made heavy breathing, we even made orgasms, but love? Love?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert Silverberg", "slug": "robert-silverberg", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg" }, "book": { "title": "The Stochastic Man", "slug": "the-stochastic-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 162, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sex", "slug": "sex", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#The_Stochastic_Man_(1975)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:42" }, { "id": "07c901cf-e992-41b3-ae4a-ea75bca4bf21", "slug": "as-to-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments/as-to-love", "text": "As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Adam Smith", "slug": "adam-smith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith" }, "book": { "title": "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", "slug": "the-theory-of-moral-sentiments", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-smith/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "Christianity", "slug": "christianity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith#Part_I", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:42" }, { "id": "52d3881c-1404-4915-b629-a69f2ffe1854", "slug": "love-of-others", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes/love-of-others", "text": "Love of others begins with love of self.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert Silverberg", "slug": "robert-silverberg", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg" }, "book": { "title": "A Time of Changes", "slug": "a-time-of-changes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 126, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#A_Time_of_Changes_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:41" }, { "id": "e0ac7749-6597-43a3-8a0c-49683153c1a4", "slug": "of-course-chalk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/thorns/of-course-chalk", "text": "Of course, Chalk had little need for further money. It had motivated him once, but not now. Nor did the acquisition of greater power please him much. Despite the customary theories, Chalk had attained sufficient power so that he was willing to stop expanding if only he could be sure of holding what he had. No, it was something else, something inner, that governed his decisions now. 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But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love. When we define a man by the market value of the service we can expect of him, we know him imperfectly. With this limited knowledge of him it becomes easy for us to be unjust to him and to entertain feelings of triumphant self-congratulation when, on account of some cruel advantage on our side, we can get out of him much more than we have paid for. But when we know him as a spirit we know him as our own. We at once feel that cruelty to him is cruelty to ourselves, to make him small is stealing from our own humanity...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rabindranath Tagore", "slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore" }, "book": { "title": "Sadhana", "slug": "sadhana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore#S%C4%81dhan%C4%81_:_The_Realisation_of_Life_(1916)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:32" }, { "id": "9094b746-9736-4854-a887-5e1b401a73ec", "slug": "want-of-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana/want-of-love", "text": "Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation. It is the white light of pure consciousness that emanates from Brahma. So, to be one with this sarvānubhūh, this all-feeling being who is in the external sky, as well as in our inner soul, we must attain to that summit of consciousness, which is love: Who could have breathed or moved if the sky were not filled with joy, with love?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rabindranath Tagore", "slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore" }, "book": { "title": "Sadhana", "slug": "sadhana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore#S%C4%81dhan%C4%81_:_The_Realisation_of_Life_(1916)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:32" }, { "id": "442abc84-7257-4d10-b50e-5a2f6e8fa29f", "slug": "in-love-at-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana/in-love-at-one", "text": "In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rabindranath Tagore", "slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore" }, "book": { "title": "Sadhana", "slug": "sadhana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore#S%C4%81dhan%C4%81_:_The_Realisation_of_Life_(1916)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:32" }, { "id": "34f8833d-e6c3-4a52-8e7c-d9a8301f935f", "slug": "we-never-can", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana/we-never-can", "text": "We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity. The first question and the last which it has to answer is, Whether and how far it recognises man more as a spirit than a machine? Whenever some ancient civilisation fell into decay and died, it was owing to causes which produced callousness of heart and led to the cheapening of man's worth; when either the state or some powerful group of men began to look upon the people as a mere instrument of their power; when, by compelling weaker races to slavery and trying to keep them down by every means, man struck at the foundation of his greatness, his own love of freedom and fair-play. Civilisation can never sustain itself upon cannibalism of any form. 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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love. In love, loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column, and gifts are added to gains. In this wonderful festival of creation, this great ceremony of self-sacrifice of God, the lover constantly gives himself up to gain himself in love. Indeed, love is what brings together and inseparably connects both the act of abandoning and that of receiving.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rabindranath Tagore", "slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore" }, "book": { "title": "Sadhana", "slug": "sadhana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rabindranath-tagore/sadhana" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore#S%C4%81dhan%C4%81_:_The_Realisation_of_Life_(1916)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:32" }, { "id": "9479b102-2be3-4d28-bac7-04348d1c4101", "slug": "nelson-re-annabelle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered/nelson-re-annabelle", "text": "[Nelson, re. Annabelle] ...\"she wants what everybody wants. She wants love.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Hoyer Updike", "slug": "john-hoyer-updike", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike" }, "book": { "title": "Rabbit Remembered", "slug": "rabbit-remembered", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-remembered" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_Remembered_(2000)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:31" }, { "id": "7b60f6f2-16ea-4e11-aafd-57e6401c749f", "slug": "you-dont-stop", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/you-dont-stop", "text": "You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Hoyer Updike", "slug": "john-hoyer-updike", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike" }, "book": { "title": "Rabbit Is Rich", "slug": "rabbit-is-rich", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_is_Rich_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:28" }, { "id": "e584c34d-5e8c-45e1-815f-59f18d206fa8", "slug": "no-one-is-born", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom/no-one-is-born", "text": "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. 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I don’t know.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ray Bradbury", "slug": "ray-bradbury", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury" }, "book": { "title": "Dandelion Wine", "slug": "dandelion-wine", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 151, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "thinking", "slug": "thinking", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking" }, { "name": "the body", "slug": "the-body", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Dandelion_Wine_(1957)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:11" }, { "id": "00c2859d-647a-4a44-b775-a39ea3fe3bc5", "slug": "beauty-compelled-admiration", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/beauty-compelled-admiration", "text": "Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. 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That's what I don't understand. There's just love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "Good Omens", "slug": "good-omens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/good-omens" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "evil", "slug": "evil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Good_Omens#Saturday", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:53" }, { "id": "de9a7285-e079-48c5-b0d6-28a06eb3a220", "slug": "the-month-of-may", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory/le-morte-darthur/the-month-of-may", "text": "The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Malory", "slug": "thomas-malory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory" }, "book": { "title": "Le Morte d'Arthur", "slug": "le-morte-darthur", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory/le-morte-darthur" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory#Le_Morte_d'Arthur_(c._1469)_(first_known_edition_1485)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:50" }, { "id": "90fc9683-abb6-4252-8a32-ca7c7a45bb56", "slug": "the-joy-of-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory/le-morte-darthur/the-joy-of-love", "text": "The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Malory", "slug": "thomas-malory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory" }, "book": { "title": "Le Morte d'Arthur", "slug": "le-morte-darthur", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory/le-morte-darthur" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory#Le_Morte_d'Arthur_(c._1469)_(first_known_edition_1485)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:50" }, { "id": "8c89dbb9-9e6a-46be-9919-b2601781a295", "slug": "nowadays-men-cannot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-malory/le-morte-darthur/nowadays-men-cannot", "text": "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. 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Love is everything else that can be between a man and a woman, without that.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Theodore Sturgeon", "slug": "theodore-sturgeon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon" }, "book": { "title": "To Marry Medusa", "slug": "to-marry-medusa", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/to-marry-medusa" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 40, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#To_Marry_Medusa_(1958)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49" }, { "id": "bc4c2ce3-4103-45f8-b8f6-431635c3b91f", "slug": "americans-are-forever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/americans-are-forever", "text": "Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Cat's Cradle", "slug": "cats-cradle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "America", "slug": "america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:37" }, { "id": "0a73940e-5ece-426f-b7c0-4e16bbf0cf6f", "slug": "there-is-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/there-is-love", "text": "There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Cat's Cradle", "slug": "cats-cradle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:36" }, { "id": "257a53f6-ae34-43d7-9447-8540a094cf0c", "slug": "you-finally-fell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/the-sirens-of-titan/you-finally-fell", "text": "\"You finally fell in love, I see,\" said Salo. \"Only an Earthling year ago,\" said Constant. \"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "The Sirens of Titan", "slug": "the-sirens-of-titan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/the-sirens-of-titan" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 313, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "meaning of life", "slug": "meaning-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#The_Sirens_of_Titan_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:35" }, { "id": "01e238bc-62e5-4699-afdf-c5af91447860", "slug": "make-love-when", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/mother-night/make-love-when", "text": "Make love when you can. It's good for you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Mother Night", "slug": "mother-night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/mother-night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sex", "slug": "sex", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Mother_Night_(1962)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:35" }, { "id": "55db0747-fafe-4ae9-8672-c774ed4dd24a", "slug": "ive-taken-my-fun-where", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/ive-taken-my-fun-where", "text": "I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rudyard Kipling", "slug": "rudyard-kipling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling" }, "book": { "title": "Barrack-Room Ballads", "slug": "barrack-room-ballads", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "experience", "slug": "experience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/experience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#Barrack-Room_Ballads_(1892,_1896)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:25" }, { "id": "1bec8fde-5eea-4fc6-bfad-8ec95b64808b", "slug": "when-its-for", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/when-its-for", "text": "When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Henry James", "slug": "henry-james", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james" }, "book": { "title": "The Ambassadors", "slug": "the-ambassadors", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James#The_Ambassadors_(1903)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:24" }, { "id": "39ee67ce-92ea-4106-9742-07a3383c9876", "slug": "if-i-should", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady/if-i-should", "text": "\"If I should cease to think of you at all for a prescribed time, I should find I could keep it up indefinitely. [...] You know that what you ask is impossible [...] I'm capable of nothing with regard to you,\" he went on, \"but just of being infernally in love with you. 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The journalism and the moral pamphleteering of the time seem to foster it with almost partisan zeal. It would seem that a censorship of life had been established by divinity, and the care of its execution given into the hands of the utterly conservative. Yet there is that other form of liaison which has nothing to do with conscious calculation. In the vast majority of cases it is without design or guile. The average woman, controlled by her affections and deeply in love, is no more capable than a child of anything save sacrificial thought—the desire to give; and so long as this state endures, she can only do this. She may change—Hell hath no fury, etc.—but the sacrificial, yielding, solicitous attitude is more often the outstanding characteristic of the mistress; and it is this very attitude in contradistinction to the grasping legality of established matrimony that has caused so many wounds in the defenses of the latter. The temperament of man, either male or female, cannot help falling down before and worshiping this nonseeking, sacrificial note. It approaches vast distinction in life. It appears to be related to that last word in art, that largeness of spirit which is the first characteristic of the great picture, the great building, the great sculpture, the great decoration—namely, a giving, freely and without stint, of itself, of beauty.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Theodore Dreiser", "slug": "theodore-dreiser", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-dreiser" }, "book": { "title": "The Financier", "slug": "the-financier", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-dreiser/the-financier" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser#The_Financier_(1912)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:21" }, { "id": "b994a8c5-13d1-46f1-a721-39d4ce9a0c71", "slug": "this-conflict-between", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain/this-conflict-between", "text": "This conflict between the powers of love and chastity ... it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, held in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure.... But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. 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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. 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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization, friendly, enlightened, beautiful human intercourse — always in silent recognition of the blood sacrifice.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Mann", "slug": "thomas-mann", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann" }, "book": { "title": "The Magic Mountain", "slug": "the-magic-mountain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#The_Magic_Mountain_(1924)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:16" }, { "id": "1496e5e4-5de5-443b-9273-7c64bae12b34", "slug": "there-is-both", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain/there-is-both", "text": "There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be good. I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts. For therein lies goodness and love of humankind, and in nothing else.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Mann", "slug": "thomas-mann", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann" }, "book": { "title": "The Magic Mountain", "slug": "the-magic-mountain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "kindness", "slug": "kindness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#The_Magic_Mountain_(1924)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:16" }, { "id": "c883161e-6a62-49ac-b577-1f32146e71f6", "slug": "black-with-hate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/red-prophet/black-with-hate", "text": "“Black with hate,” said Becca. “You are gathering your people with hate.” “Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw. “That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Red Prophet", "slug": "red-prophet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/red-prophet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Red_Prophet_(1988)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:12" }, { "id": "1ecbcea6-4ba7-467b-93dc-dc12df80a550", "slug": "some-men-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin/some-men-are", "text": "Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Prentice Alvin", "slug": "prentice-alvin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Prentice_Alvin_(1989)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:12" }, { "id": "9acdf895-af1b-4453-aacb-2262df8a8c66", "slug": "youre-the-only", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall/youre-the-only", "text": "You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Earthfall", "slug": "earthfall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "secrets", "slug": "secrets", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthfall_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10" }, { "id": "3bd000e7-7c13-414d-9b65-9ff96a4d0521", "slug": "i-dont-mind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall/i-dont-mind", "text": "I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Earthfall", "slug": "earthfall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthfall_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10" }, { "id": "0851e639-7c71-44a6-bf9b-3666d010fa55", "slug": "dont-lie-to-me-dont", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall/dont-lie-to-me-dont", "text": "Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Earthfall", "slug": "earthfall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthfall_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10" }, { "id": "f47a2070-7203-4ba3-a0a1-a70e89d59dde", "slug": "doesnt-love-show", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/doesnt-love-show", "text": "Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "The Ships Of Earth", "slug": "the-ships-of-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Ships_Of_Earth_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09" }, { "id": "90473c16-268e-43ee-9286-8ac8353936a6", "slug": "show-him-who", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/show-him-who", "text": "Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "The Ships Of Earth", "slug": "the-ships-of-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "empathy", "slug": "empathy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Ships_Of_Earth_(1994)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09" }, { "id": "48216595-3579-45bf-8921-c8d2856fdfac", "slug": "permanence-was-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-memory-of-earth/permanence-was-always", "text": "Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "The Memory Of Earth", "slug": "the-memory-of-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-memory-of-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "transience", "slug": "transience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Memory_Of_Earth_(1992)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09" }, { "id": "e25a1099-f423-46d4-9c1c-e3e24a753ba5", "slug": "this-is-what", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys/this-is-what", "text": "This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Lost Boys", "slug": "lost-boys", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Lost_Boys_(1992)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:07" }, { "id": "0bb587c0-877a-4e65-8746-43e9f5205ab5", "slug": "where-there-is-great", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/death-comes-for-the-archbishop/where-there-is-great", "text": "Where there is great love there are always miracles.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Willa Cather", "slug": "willa-cather", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather" }, "book": { "title": "Death Comes for the Archbishop", "slug": "death-comes-for-the-archbishop", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/death-comes-for-the-archbishop" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "miracles", "slug": "miracles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/miracles" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop_(1927)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:04" }, { "id": "87693638-e2ca-4d47-95de-efdfaf822878", "slug": "in-great-misfortunes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house/in-great-misfortunes", "text": "\"In great misfortunes,\" he told himself, \"people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love — if once one has ever fallen in.\" Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Willa Cather", "slug": "willa-cather", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather" }, "book": { "title": "The Professor's House", "slug": "the-professors-house", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#The_Professor's_House_(1925)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:03" }, { "id": "4a4a3bbc-2638-493c-9fb8-b17229d1b7ba", "slug": "people-can-be-lovers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-mortal-enemy/people-can-be-lovers", "text": "People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. We were... A man and woman draw apart from that long embrace, and see what they have done to each other... In age we lose everything; even the power to love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Willa Cather", "slug": "willa-cather", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather" }, "book": { "title": "My Mortal Enemy", "slug": "my-mortal-enemy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-mortal-enemy" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "old age", "slug": "old-age", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#My_Mortal_Enemy_(1926)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:03" }, { "id": "4393592d-dc9b-4086-8245-c91e92d3330f", "slug": "aint-it-wonderful", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/aint-it-wonderful", "text": "Ain't it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Willa Cather", "slug": "willa-cather", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather" }, "book": { "title": "My Antonia", "slug": "my-antonia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#My_Antonia_(1918)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:03" }, { "id": "15b0a19c-bb5d-473b-b9be-ea83d9276e76", "slug": "i-think-of-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia/i-think-of-you", "text": "I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister — anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Willa Cather", "slug": "willa-cather", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather" }, "book": { "title": "My Antonia", "slug": "my-antonia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/my-antonia" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#My_Antonia_(1918)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:03" }, { "id": "e9fb7c50-5ea8-432c-94de-b02122eaf88e", "slug": "and-afterward-when", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/l-frank-baum/the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus/and-afterward-when", "text": "And, afterward, when a child was naughty or disobedient, its mother would say: \"You must pray to the good Santa Claus for forgiveness. He does not like naughty children, and, unless you repent, he will bring you no more pretty toys.\"But Santa Claus himself would not have approved this speech. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. He knew that the best of children were sometimes naughty, and that the naughty ones were often good. It is the way with children, the world over, and he would not have changed their natures had he possessed the power to do so.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "L. 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But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/friedrich-holderlin" }, "book": { "title": "Hyperion", "slug": "hyperion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/friedrich-holderlin/hyperion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "perfection", "slug": "perfection", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perfection" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin#Hyperion", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:56" }, { "id": "fe2ca34a-3b77-4457-90fd-b04191772244", "slug": "love-is-at-first", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/love-is-at-first", "text": "Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become world, to become world for himself for another's sake. 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Even with the trivial, with the insignificant (as long as it is done out of love) we begin, with work and with the repose that comes afterward, with a silence or with a small solitary joy, with everything that we do alone, without anyone to join or help us, we start Him whom we will not live to see, just as our ancestors could not live to see us. And yet they, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. 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We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "slug": "rainer-maria-rilke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke" }, "book": { "title": "Letters to a Young Poet", "slug": "letters-to-a-young-poet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" }, { "name": "perseverance", "slug": "perseverance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke#Letters_to_a_Young_Poet_(1934)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:55" }, { "id": "226ed11c-f806-45cf-bb9a-ab31493bc9aa", "slug": "the-demands-which", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/the-demands-which", "text": "The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them. 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I mean that I think you know, as well as I do, love is not a gift which any man can give nor any person hope long to retain. 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Take care of us all, one way or another.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "The Dharma Bums", "slug": "the-dharma-bums", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dharma_Bums", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:31" }, { "id": "dcd114de-ef04-4b9e-8cd4-c261d6b15e18", "slug": "boys-and-girls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/boys-and-girls", "text": "Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "On the Road", "slug": "on-the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "conversation", "slug": "conversation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation" }, { "name": "sex", "slug": "sex", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Part_one", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:30" }, { "id": "a0a6ad86-d9e5-4696-9d1e-1e586f94e2fc", "slug": "we-turned-at-a-dozen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/we-turned-at-a-dozen", "text": "We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "On the Road", "slug": "on-the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "separation", "slug": "separation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Part_one", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:30" }, { "id": "8deaa1af-d640-4a27-991d-53b8e37bb352", "slug": "a-pain-stabbed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/a-pain-stabbed", "text": "A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Kerouac", "slug": "jack-kerouac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac" }, "book": { "title": "On the Road", "slug": "on-the-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "farewells", "slug": "farewells", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Part_one", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:30" }, { "id": "290b739e-a4d3-423f-b228-9b378e131daa", "slug": "i-love-my-gallant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/louisa-may-alcott/little-women/i-love-my-gallant", "text": "I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. 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We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "The Waves", "slug": "the-waves", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/the-waves" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "identity", "slug": "identity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#The_Waves_(1931)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:17" }, { "id": "86fb402f-b820-4596-83a4-84f12618773b", "slug": "could-loving-as-people", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse/could-loving-as-people", "text": "Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscription on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs Ramsay's knee.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "To the Lighthouse", "slug": "to-the-lighthouse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#To_the_Lighthouse_(1927)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:15" }, { "id": "6595d9bd-bdf4-4d62-8355-f321baf5bb4f", "slug": "she-alone-spoke", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse/she-alone-spoke", "text": "She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "To the Lighthouse", "slug": "to-the-lighthouse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "honesty", "slug": "honesty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#To_the_Lighthouse_(1927)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:15" }, { "id": "7f16262f-5c6f-4d63-a1b6-59af2fcb5664", "slug": "there-is-no-formula", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity/there-is-no-formula", "text": "There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alan W. Watts", "slug": "alan-w-watts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts" }, "book": { "title": "The Wisdom of Insecurity", "slug": "the-wisdom-of-insecurity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "selfishness", "slug": "selfishness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Watts#The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity_(1951)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:11" }, { "id": "06ba1c6c-967f-43c6-8491-8e1b65c98f8a", "slug": "the-consuming-desire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/the-consuming-desire", "text": "The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn’t even want the beastly thing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Quentin Crisp", "slug": "quentin-crisp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp" }, "book": { "title": "The Naked Civil Servant", "slug": "the-naked-civil-servant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "independence", "slug": "independence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/independence" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp#The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:11" }, { "id": "00fb0df3-3baa-45c6-95fd-dc2ab3fc73ad", "slug": "there-are-girls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/there-are-girls", "text": "There are girls who do not like real life... Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships [with homosexuals] will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to them without their having to take too horribly much notice. Even those who are sufficiently sophisticated to know that this will not be so persist in these relationships. They provide an opportunity to lavish emotion on a pseudo-man without paying the price that in heterosexual circumstances would be inevitable.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Quentin Crisp", "slug": "quentin-crisp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp" }, "book": { "title": "The Naked Civil Servant", "slug": "the-naked-civil-servant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "homosexuality", "slug": "homosexuality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homosexuality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp#The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:11" }, { "id": "cb5142db-0214-46dd-9e7c-96bb33443825", "slug": "she-took-his", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/a-scanner-darkly/she-took-his", "text": "She took his hand, squeezed it, held it, and then, all at once, she let it drop. But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip K. Dick", "slug": "philip-k-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick" }, "book": { "title": "A Scanner Darkly", "slug": "a-scanner-darkly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/a-scanner-darkly" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 156, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "separation", "slug": "separation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#A_Scanner_Darkly_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:07" }, { "id": "fd31d1fc-77ba-4124-a50b-3db977b2a2dd", "slug": "youre-killing-yourself", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle/youre-killing-yourself", "text": "You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Philip K. Dick", "slug": "philip-k-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick" }, "book": { "title": "The Man in the High Castle", "slug": "the-man-in-the-high-castle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "cynicism", "slug": "cynicism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(1962)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:04" }, { "id": "446fa245-518b-4a51-916e-3006d1748bdc", "slug": "it-takes-courage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/my-day/it-takes-courage", "text": "It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. 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We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.\" \"And look what it got you!\" \"Yes, and pray that you get the same!\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "God Emperor of Dune", "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:54" }, { "id": "592e7ccc-f7b1-4374-9458-2d13ef0be7ef", "slug": "my-uncle-malky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/my-uncle-malky", "text": "\"My uncle Malky use to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.\" \"Your uncle Malky was a wise man.\" \"He was stupid! Love needs no guarantees.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "God Emperor of Dune", "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:53" }, { "id": "433e75e9-0b88-428d-a773-cd1a436b8c56", "slug": "you-know-its", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/you-know-its", "text": "\"You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "God Emperor of Dune", "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:53" }, { "id": "7b898dab-0f47-4aaf-9a1f-403efc8b2f91", "slug": "dont-fear-me-forget", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/dont-fear-me-forget", "text": "“’Don’t fear me. 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And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Contact", "slug": "contact", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 407, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Contact_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:28" }, { "id": "0d25a1b0-b729-4f90-bd68-dde4f57a8033", "slug": "for-small-creatures", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact/for-small-creatures", "text": "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Contact", "slug": "contact", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 430, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "the universe", "slug": "the-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Contact_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:28" }, { "id": "4d54c716-b19d-4cbf-9988-a42784afd4a4", "slug": "in-the-vastness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos/in-the-vastness", "text": "In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Carl Sagan", "slug": "carl-sagan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan" }, "book": { "title": "Cosmos", "slug": "cosmos", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "the universe", "slug": "the-universe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Cosmos_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:27" }, { "id": "401df655-3dee-442f-9430-c3996c7dbd81", "slug": "i-am-sorry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/i-am-sorry", "text": "I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead ofnearer to it — at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:25" }, { "id": "a59509eb-c0fa-48b2-8654-896f193697ed", "slug": "if-you-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/if-you-are", "text": "If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "8fac9090-a215-4132-9b6c-8059d09ce1de", "slug": "brothers-have-no-fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/brothers-have-no-fear", "text": "Brothers, have no fear of men's sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God's creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and untroubled joy. So do not trouble it, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their joy, do not go against God's intent. Man, do not exhale yourself above the animals: they are without sin, while you in your majesty defile the earth by your appearance on it, and you leave the traces of your defilement behind you — alas, this is true of almost every one of us! Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child. My young brother asked even the birds to forgive him. It may sound absurd, but it is right none the less, for everything, like the ocean, flows and enters into contact with everything else: touch one place, and you set up a movement at the other end of the world. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but, then, it would be easier for the birds, and for the child, and for every animal if you were yourself more pleasant than you are now. Everything is like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds, too, consumed by a universal love, as though in ecstasy, and ask that they, too, should forgive your sin. Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "animals", "slug": "animals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals" }, { "name": "sin", "slug": "sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "53337537-8869-4bb0-a1e4-abc1b5f54136", "slug": "fathers-and-teachers-i", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/fathers-and-teachers-i", "text": "Fathers and teachers, I ponder, \"What is hell?\" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hell", "slug": "hell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "94a80333-40f7-434f-add4-0e07249890cc", "slug": "and-now-once", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler/and-now-once", "text": "And now once again I asked myself the question: do I love her? And once more I could not answer, that is to say, again, for the hundredth time, I answered that I hated her.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Gambler", "slug": "the-gambler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Gambler_(1866)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:22" }, { "id": "422e79a3-1f53-4c1b-96e7-8714e63ed825", "slug": "the-world-is-indeed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/the-world-is-indeed", "text": "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. 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Tolkien", "slug": "j-r-r-tolkien", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien" }, "book": { "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring", "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#Lothl%C3%B3rien", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21" }, { "id": "ffc54c9a-aa1a-463e-a415-5029d1d0f5aa", "slug": "of-course-he-wasnt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god/of-course-he-wasnt", "text": "Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Zora Neale Hurston", "slug": "zora-neale-hurston", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston" }, "book": { "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "slug": "their-eyes-were-watching-god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 193, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston#Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:17" }, { "id": "8e0673e9-43ea-4347-9dab-429efb438820", "slug": "then-you-must", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god/then-you-must", "text": "\"Then you must tell ’em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Zora Neale Hurston", "slug": "zora-neale-hurston", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston" }, "book": { "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "slug": "their-eyes-were-watching-god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/their-eyes-were-watching-god" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston#Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:17" }, { "id": "4a57a237-1aaa-4025-824e-afa26c8dc4c3", "slug": "love-i-find", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road/love-i-find", "text": "Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Zora Neale Hurston", "slug": "zora-neale-hurston", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston" }, "book": { "title": "Dust Tracks On A Road", "slug": "dust-tracks-on-a-road", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zora-neale-hurston/dust-tracks-on-a-road" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 203, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston#Dust_Tracks_on_a_Road_(1942)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:17" }, { "id": "b6e66c1e-eac4-46ff-9878-a0b7b63bf9be", "slug": "i-may-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-ashe/days-of-grace/i-may-not", "text": "I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now. Don’t be angry with me if I am not there in person, alive and well, when you need me. I would like nothing more than to be with you always. Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone. When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Camera, wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. 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I still am in lots of ways. But because of you I've had to give up trying to be a dedicated, full-time shit. I couldn't make it, hadn't the strength of character. Which is a pity in a way, because when you fall back into the ranks of the failed shits or amateur shits or incidental shits you start taking on responsibility for other people.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kingsley Amis", "slug": "kingsley-amis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis" }, "book": { "title": "I Want It Now", "slug": "i-want-it-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/i-want-it-now" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 254, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "responsibility", "slug": "responsibility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis#I_Want_It_Now_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:02" }, { "id": "a2604b4d-b412-4015-a581-4cd2f0f89e3d", "slug": "then-let-wrath", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/then-let-wrath", "text": "Then let wrath remove; Love will do the deed: For with love Stony hearts will bleed.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Herbert", "slug": "george-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "The Temple", "slug": "the-temple", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "anger", "slug": "anger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Herbert#The_Temple_(1633)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:01" }, { "id": "a05dbee3-9110-4cd9-a903-2ea0958ef832", "slug": "love-bade-me-welcome", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/love-bade-me-welcome", "text": "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. 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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Eliot", "slug": "george-eliot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot" }, "book": { "title": "Adam Bede", "slug": "adam-bede", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Adam_Bede_(1859)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:49" }, { "id": "81eef60e-b0b0-44f9-af41-ca33750f002f", "slug": "such-young-unfurrowed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/such-young-unfurrowed", "text": "Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Eliot", "slug": "george-eliot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot" }, "book": { "title": "Adam Bede", "slug": "adam-bede", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Adam_Bede_(1859)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:49" }, { "id": "7322a406-aecf-4622-861d-3aa463a509d9", "slug": "blessed-influence-of-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/scenes-of-clerical-life/blessed-influence-of-one", "text": "Blessed influence of one true, loving human soul on another. Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Eliot", "slug": "george-eliot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot" }, "book": { "title": "Scenes of Clerical Life", "slug": "scenes-of-clerical-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/scenes-of-clerical-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Scenes_of_Clerical_Life_(1858)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:49" }, { "id": "10e834f2-31c7-41e3-a8dd-d8970d0daf42", "slug": "love-has-a-way", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/love-has-a-way", "text": "Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Eliot", "slug": "george-eliot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot" }, "book": { "title": "Adam Bede", "slug": "adam-bede", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "illusions", "slug": "illusions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#Adam_Bede_(1859)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:49" }, { "id": "bdac81f1-76a1-4174-814e-dc6ccebc347f", "slug": "he-had-a-word", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/he-had-a-word", "text": "He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "william-faulkner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner" }, "book": { "title": "As I Lay Dying", "slug": "as-i-lay-dying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "words", "slug": "words", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner#As_I_Lay_Dying_(1930)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:44" }, { "id": "788a26d3-c685-42ed-9a6e-5b994be62182", "slug": "sin-and-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/sin-and-love", "text": "Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "william-faulkner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner" }, "book": { "title": "As I Lay Dying", "slug": "as-i-lay-dying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "fear", "slug": "fear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear" }, { "name": "words", "slug": "words", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words" }, { "name": "sin", "slug": "sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner#As_I_Lay_Dying_(1930)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:44" }, { "id": "66474074-f42c-4d98-86e5-62947f548727", "slug": "weep-said-athos", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas/the-three-musketeers/weep-said-athos", "text": "\"Weep,\" said Athos, \"weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alexandre Dumas", "slug": "alexandre-dumas", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas" }, "book": { "title": "The Three Musketeers", "slug": "the-three-musketeers", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas/the-three-musketeers" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas#The_Three_Musketeers_(1844)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:43" }, { "id": "8c917b5a-6da9-49f5-b390-8a86dbc78959", "slug": "if-love-is-suspicious", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/if-love-is-suspicious", "text": "If love is suspicious, esteem is trustful; and love will never exist in an honest heart without esteem, for every one loves in another the qualities which he himself holds in honour.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:38" }, { "id": "5cfbe6fc-9e62-4ac1-8297-f8b2358abb17", "slug": "why-should-we-trouble", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/why-should-we-trouble", "text": "\"Why should we trouble ourselves about the empty words and unjust suspicions of other people?\" said he eagerly. \"Have you not taught me yourself to make light of them? Who knows better than I how greatly I honour Sophy, what respect I desire to show her? My attachment will not cause her shame, it will be her glory, it shall be worthy of her. If my heart and my actions continually give her the homage she deserves, what harm can I do her?\" \"Dear Emile,\" I said, as I clasped him to my heart, \"you are thinking of yourself alone; learn to think for her too. Do not compare the honour of one sex with that of the other, they rest on different foundations. These foundations are equally firm and right, because they are both laid by nature, and that same virtue which makes you scorn what men say about yourself, binds you to respect what they say of her you love. Your honour is in your own keeping, her honour depends on others. To neglect it is to wound your own honour, and you fail in what is due to yourself if you do not give her the respect she deserves.\" Always prone to extremes, the youth takes alarm at the consequences which I have compelled him to consider, and now he thinks that he cannot be too far from Sophy's home; he hastens his steps to get further from it; he glances round to make sure that no one is listening; he would sacrifice his own happiness a thousand times to the honour of her whom he loves; he would rather never see her again than cause her the least unpleasantness. This is the first result of the pains I have taken ever since he was a child to make him capable of affection.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "honour", "slug": "honour", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honour" }, { "name": "reputation", "slug": "reputation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reputation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:38" }, { "id": "1e3051f3-7313-4d9a-b94c-3a1fe43ee49d", "slug": "affection-and-kind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/affection-and-kind", "text": "Affection and kind deeds rarely win hearts, and they hardly ever win them back.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "kindness", "slug": "kindness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:38" }, { "id": "c948fd07-fe53-4462-9298-39e839696fa7", "slug": "in-ordinary-social", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/in-ordinary-social", "text": "In ordinary social intercourse the manners adopted towards everybody are good enough for all; no question is asked as to private likes or dislikes provided all are alike well received. But in love, a favour shared with others is an insult. A man of feeling would rather be singled out for ill-treatment than be caressed with the crowd, and the worst that can befall him is to be treated like every one else.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:37" }, { "id": "b8b8b211-c3b5-4e09-8e8d-21e1e8ec05a2", "slug": "what-is-there", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/what-is-there", "text": "What is there to kindle the hearts of lovers for whom this perfection is nothing, for whom the loved one is merely the means to sensual pleasure? Nay, not thus is the heart kindled, not thus does it abandon itself to those sublime transports which form the rapture of lovers and the charm of love. Love is an illusion, I grant you, but its reality consists in the feelings it awakes, in the love of true beauty which it inspires. That beauty is not to be found in the object of our affections, it is the creation of our illusions. What matter! do we not still sacrifice all those baser feelings to the imaginary model? and we still feed our hearts on the virtues we attribute to the beloved, we still withdraw ourselves from the baseness of human nature.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "illusions", "slug": "illusions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:37" }, { "id": "7106de90-bcf2-4f4a-bb4a-fd132430f6f4", "slug": "i-will-go-further", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/i-will-go-further", "text": "I will go further and maintain that virtue is no less favourable to love than to other rights of nature, and that it adds as much to the power of the beloved as to that of the wife or mother. There is no real love without enthusiasm, and no enthusiasm without an object of perfection real or supposed, but always present in the imagination.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "enthusiasm", "slug": "enthusiasm", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/enthusiasm" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:37" }, { "id": "29740eb9-9eeb-471d-ab3b-ea33e6fef79f", "slug": "husband-and-wife", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/husband-and-wife", "text": "\"Husband and wife should choose each other. A mutual liking should be the first bond between them. They should follow the guidance of their own eyes and hearts; when they are married their first duty will be to love one another, and as love and hatred do not depend on ourselves, this duty brings another with it, and they must begin to love each other before marriage. That is the law of nature, and no power can abrogate it; those who have fettered it by so many legal restrictions have given heed rather to the outward show of order than to the happiness of marriage or the morals of the citizen.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:37" }, { "id": "16d3558a-8eee-4648-8f68-d16b1ae9480a", "slug": "the-reply-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-reply-was", "text": "The reply was simple. If it were only a question of the partner of her youth, her choice would soon be made; but a master for life is not so easily chosen; and since the two cannot be separated, people must often wait and sacrifice their youth before they find the man with whom they could spend their life. Such was Sophy's case; she wanted a lover, but this lover must be her husband; and to discover a heart such as she required, a lover and husband were equally difficult to find. All these dashing young men were only her equals in age, in everything else they were found lacking; their empty wit, their vanity, their affectations of speech, their ill-regulated conduct, their frivolous imitations alike disgusted her. She sought a man and she found monkeys; she sought a soul and there was none to be found. \"How unhappy I am!\" said she to her mother; \"I am compelled to love and yet I am dissatisfied with every one. My heart rejects every one who appeals to my senses. Every one of them stirs my passions and all alike revolt them; a liking unaccompanied by respect cannot last. That is not the sort of man for your Sophy; the delightful image of her ideal is too deeply graven in her heart. She can love no other; she can make no one happy but him, and she cannot be happy without him. She would rather consume herself in ceaseless conflicts, she would rather die free and wretched, than driven desperate by the company of a man she did not love, a man she would make as unhappy as herself; she would rather die than live to suffer.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:37" }, { "id": "7944a8a6-c8eb-4b3e-aed8-7ce01a421798", "slug": "it-would-be-sweet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/it-would-be-sweet", "text": "It would be sweet to lie generous towards one we love, if that did not make a bargain of love. I know only one way of gratifying this desire with the woman one loves without embittering love; it is to bestow our all upon her and to live at her expense. It remains to be seen whether there is any woman with regard to whom such conduct would not be unwise.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "gifts", "slug": "gifts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gifts" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:36" }, { "id": "fedabcaa-f964-4915-b78d-0f91b07caf66", "slug": "one-sex-is-attracted", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/one-sex-is-attracted", "text": "One sex is attracted by the other; that is the impulse of nature. Choice, preferences, individual likings, are the work of reason, prejudice, and habit; time and knowledge are required to make us capable of love; we do not love without reasoning or prefer without comparison. These judgments are none the less real, although they are formed unconsciously. True love, whatever you may say, will always be held in honour by mankind; for although its impulses lead us astray, although it does not bar the door of the heart to certain detestable qualities, although it even gives rise to these, yet it always presupposes certain worthy characteristics, without which we should be incapable of love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "d6e28491-a542-4ee2-b0db-15fb9bfd3354", "slug": "something-does-us-good", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/something-does-us-good", "text": "Something does us good, we seek after it; but we love the person who does us good; something harms us and we shrink from it, but we hate the person who tries to hurt us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "d13a0bf4-de6d-49d8-abf5-8cf719132cb1", "slug": "we-wish-to-inspire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/we-wish-to-inspire", "text": "We wish to inspire the preference we feel; love must be mutual. To be loved we must be worthy of love; to be preferred we must be more worthy than the rest, at least in the eyes of our beloved. Hence we begin to look around among our fellows; we begin to compare ourselves with them, there is emulation, rivalry, and jealousy.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" }, { "name": "rivalry", "slug": "rivalry", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rivalry" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "5d0c2e79-73d4-4508-bd41-efdd49414dac", "slug": "the-owl-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat/the-owl-and", "text": "The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, \"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edward Lear", "slug": "edward-lear", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear" }, "book": { "title": "The Owl and the Pussycat", "slug": "the-owl-and-the-pussycat", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-lear/the-owl-and-the-pussycat" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Lear#The_Owl_and_the_Pussycat_(1871)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:30" }, { "id": "ba9e303d-0244-4a0f-974f-2b33d316c09a", "slug": "women-are-always", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-razors-edge/women-are-always", "text": "Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "The Razor's Edge", "slug": "the-razors-edge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-razors-edge" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Razor's_Edge_(1943)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:29" }, { "id": "c64751d2-64ae-4c32-ad67-d02fb8489151", "slug": "we-are-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-summing-up/we-are-not", "text": "We are not the same persons this year as last ; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "The Summing Up", "slug": "the-summing-up", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-summing-up" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 306, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "change", "slug": "change", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Summing_Up_(1938)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:28" }, { "id": "f0d641a6-2a89-4ff2-a27a-e407cae3edd3", "slug": "life-isnt-long", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence/life-isnt-long", "text": "Life isn't long enough for love and art.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "The Moon And Sixpence", "slug": "the-moon-and-sixpence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 80, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Moon_and_Sixpence_(1919)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "d6bc3d0c-58ef-4ea5-8d4a-c240aaaf2112", "slug": "theres-always-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage/theres-always-one", "text": "There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "Of Human Bondage", "slug": "of-human-bondage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#Of_Human_Bondage_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "d4b0d302-5a9e-4c01-954f-547b01a5d32c", "slug": "but-when-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage/but-when-all", "text": "But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "Of Human Bondage", "slug": "of-human-bondage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#Of_Human_Bondage_(1915)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "79cd94fe-45e9-4fe5-9f48-830fee7ee362", "slug": "consciousness-conscientia-is-participated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/consciousness-conscientia-is-participated", "text": "Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and therefore is consciousness. And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "compassion", "slug": "compassion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#VII_:_Love,_Suffering,_Pity", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:22" }, { "id": "6841ecfe-3af3-4f2a-9568-46f467bc49b1", "slug": "love-is-a-contradiction", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/love-is-a-contradiction", "text": "Love is a contradiction if there is no God.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#VII_:_Love,_Suffering,_Pity", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:22" }, { "id": "261f080f-5f24-41ed-a932-9681f17b25b8", "slug": "not-by-way", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/not-by-way", "text": "Not by way of reason, but only by way of love and suffering, do we come to the living God, the human God. Reason rather separates us from Him. We cannot first know Him in order that afterward we may love Him; we must begin by loving Him, longing for Him, hungering after Him, before knowing Him. The knowledge of God proceeds from the love of God, and this love has little or nothing of the rational in it. For God is indefinable. To seek to define Him is to seek to confine Him within the limits of our mind — that is to say, to kill Him. 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Julia! Julia, my love! Julia!\" For a moment he had had an overwhelming hallucination of her presence. She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him. It was as though she had got into the texture of his skin. In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. 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Why could he not have a woman of his own instead of these filthy scuffles at intervals of years? But a real love affair was an almost unthinkable event. The women of the Party were all alike. Chastity was as deep ingrained in them as Party loyalty. By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them. 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He re-adjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work towards him, with the scrap of paper on top of it. He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I LOVE YOU. For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. 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'Tell me you love me.' 'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. 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You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything. There was never any of what this is. You think that is one thing you will never have. And then, on a lousy show like this, co-ordinating two chicken-crut guerilla bands to help you blow a bridge under impossible conditions, to abort a counter-offensive that will probably already be started, you run into a girl like this Maria.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "slug": "ernest-hemingway", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway" }, "book": { "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "slug": "for-whom-the-bell-tolls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 167, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls_(1940)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:05" }, { "id": "b8986ecf-6796-450a-91cd-ad318b674c8d", "slug": "just-kiss-me-she", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/just-kiss-me-she", "text": "\"Just kiss me.\" She kissed him on the cheek. \"No.\" \"Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.\" \"Look, turn thy head\" and then their mouths were tight together.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "slug": "ernest-hemingway", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway" }, "book": { "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "slug": "for-whom-the-bell-tolls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls_(1940)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:05" }, { "id": "8af6bc45-fa17-4d6a-b104-c80df234ba15", "slug": "i-am-no-romantic", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/i-am-no-romantic", "text": "I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "slug": "ernest-hemingway", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway" }, "book": { "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "slug": "for-whom-the-bell-tolls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/for-whom-the-bell-tolls" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 166, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls_(1940)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:05" }, { "id": "43d17ef5-d73f-4471-a94a-5c2e9cddc73c", "slug": "i-was-so-sentimental", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/to-have-and-have-not/i-was-so-sentimental", "text": "I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have? And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is that quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. Its half atheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like Lysol. To hell with love. Love is you making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to any more. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love. Your kind of picknose love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "slug": "ernest-hemingway", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway" }, "book": { "title": "To Have and Have Not", "slug": "to-have-and-have-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/to-have-and-have-not" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "disappointment", "slug": "disappointment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#To_Have_and_Have_Not_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:05" }, { "id": "854d8a6f-9e3d-4de5-b3b2-a89f8ed9eefe", "slug": "there-is-no-lonelier", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/death-in-the-afternoon/there-is-no-lonelier", "text": "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. 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S. Lewis", "slug": "c-s-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "The Screwtape Letters", "slug": "the-screwtape-letters", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#The_Screwtape_Letters_(1942)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:01" }, { "id": "95459efb-5d87-4fc0-8189-64e8c9523304", "slug": "feed-him-on-minor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters/feed-him-on-minor", "text": "Feed him on minor poets and fifthrate novelists until you have made him believe that “Love” is irresistible. . . . There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "C. S. Lewis", "slug": "c-s-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "The Screwtape Letters", "slug": "the-screwtape-letters", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#The_Screwtape_Letters_(1942)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:01" }, { "id": "43868bf5-8a2e-4bab-baae-c9fb8e20a859", "slug": "only-connect-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/howards-end/only-connect-that", "text": "Only connect! 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At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Emma", "slug": "emma", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_(novel)#Volume_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:55" }, { "id": "10d8d327-8855-48c1-a30a-1830d0bf9380", "slug": "a-man-would", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/a-man-would", "text": "A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Emma", "slug": "emma", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_(novel)#Volume_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:55" }, { "id": "0c3179d8-84fc-4197-b93c-dc8bcbc06a06", "slug": "what-did-she", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/what-did-she", "text": "What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does. She said enough to show there need not be despair – and to invite him to say more himself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Emma", "slug": "emma", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_(novel)#Volume_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:55" }, { "id": "e3e015c8-31ff-4604-975b-2d26347e12be", "slug": "you-have-said", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/you-have-said", "text": "\"You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_31-40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "be18066d-b275-4a4a-8534-c8407178bcb8", "slug": "you-thought-me-then", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/you-thought-me-then", "text": "\"You thought me then devoid of every proper feeling, I am sure you did. The turn of your countenance I shall never forget, as you said that I could not have addressed you in any possible way that would induce you to accept me.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "bae4b190-6442-4bd5-8b22-5d2ca8556d76", "slug": "i-might-as-well", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/i-might-as-well", "text": "\"I might as well enquire,\" replied she, \"why with so evident a desire of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character? Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil? But I have other provocations. You know I have. Had not my feelings decided against you—had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_31-40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "ae2a8ee1-8be2-477c-b3b9-c20b52b2f889", "slug": "elizabeth-feeling-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/elizabeth-feeling-all", "text": "Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable. They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "a6dfa98e-62d7-45eb-a825-fe1ff3345ccc", "slug": "i-cannot-fix", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/i-cannot-fix", "text": "\"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "a0eed09c-cf04-43c0-9cf2-82a73dda38b4", "slug": "you-are-too", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/you-are-too", "text": "\"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "8bce0405-c774-4a24-80fb-852ffef39b2a", "slug": "the-tumult-of-her", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/the-tumult-of-her", "text": "The tumult of her mind, was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour. Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it. That she should receive an offer of marriage from Mr. Darcy! That he should have been in love with her for so many months! So much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister, and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case—was almost incredible! It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection. But his pride, his abominable pride—his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane—his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excited.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_31-40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "2eccfc1c-b30f-46a7-a31e-b646bcfa507a", "slug": "elizabeth-had-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/elizabeth-had-never", "text": "Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "22d4ef3a-c5ff-4962-90df-41c726ba9cd0", "slug": "it-taught-me-to-hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/it-taught-me-to-hope", "text": "\"It taught me to hope,\" said he, \"as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. I knew enough of your disposition to be certain that, had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady Catherine, frankly and openly.\" Elizabeth coloured and laughed as she replied, \"Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "14e4e207-08e6-4f30-b5db-dbcf71f6eccd", "slug": "her-heart-did", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/her-heart-did", "text": "Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. But it was a hope shortly checked by other considerations, and she soon felt that even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his affection for her—for a woman who had already refused him—as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham. Brother-in-law of Wickham! Every kind of pride must revolt from the connection. He had, to be sure, done much. She was ashamed to think how much. But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief. It was reasonable that he should feel he had been wrong; he had liberality, and he had the means of exercising it; and though she would not place herself as his principal inducement, she could, perhaps, believe that remaining partiality for her might assist his endeavours in a cause where her peace of mind must be materially concerned. It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "084a3f93-6783-4d64-907d-af1c07e4474e", "slug": "there-can-be-no-doubt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/there-can-be-no-doubt", "text": "\"There can be no doubt of that. It is settled between us already, that we are to be the happiest couple in the world. But are you pleased, Jane? Shall you like to have such a brother?\" \"Very, very much. Nothing could give either Bingley or myself more delight. But we considered it, we talked of it as impossible. And do you really love him quite well enough? Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. Are you quite sure that you feel what you ought to do?\" \"Oh, yes! You will only think I feel more than I ought to do, when I tell you all.\" \"What do you mean?\" \"Why, I must confess that I love him better than I do Bingley. I am afraid you will be angry.\" \"My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?\" \"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.\" Another entreaty that she would be serious, however, produced the desired effect; and she soon satisfied Jane by her solemn assurances of attachment.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "e64c8b4d-cfcf-40b9-89f5-67fe58fbb037", "slug": "she-was-suddenly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/she-was-suddenly", "text": "She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her. But this idea was soon banished, and her spirits were very differently affected, when, to her utter amazement, she saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. In an hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. She answered him with cold civility. He sat down for a few moments, and then getting up, walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but said not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: \"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_31-40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:52" }, { "id": "b2f8c231-d506-4543-aa86-9d554ff900d6", "slug": "in-spite-of-her", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/in-spite-of-her", "text": "In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and though her intentions did not vary for an instant, she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive; till, roused to resentment by his subsequent language, she lost all compassion in anger. She tried, however, to compose herself to answer him with patience, when he should have done. He concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which, in spite of all his endeavours, he had found impossible to conquer; and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand. As he said this, she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security. Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: \"In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot—I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to anyone. It has been most unconsciously done, however, and I hope will be of short duration. The feelings which, you tell me, have long prevented the acknowledgment of your regard, can have little difficulty in overcoming it after this explanation.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_31-40", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:52" }, { "id": "a64cc73d-84d4-4116-949a-fb07f029a07f", "slug": "next-to-being", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/next-to-being", "text": "Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_21-30", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:52" }, { "id": "74eccba6-ac32-4705-aa99-693d29511929", "slug": "we-do-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/we-do-not", "text": "\"We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.\" \"But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?\" \"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? 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She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third. 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Every thing nourishes what is strong already. 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Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. 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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Milton", "slug": "john-milton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise Lost", "slug": "paradise-lost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47" }, { "id": "690157b9-b78c-42a5-84f4-c4b1586d313b", "slug": "imparadisd-in-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/imparadisd-in-one", "text": "Imparadis'd in one another's arms.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Milton", "slug": "john-milton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise Lost", "slug": "paradise-lost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47" }, { "id": "4eac4a5e-e5ec-4823-9123-3734258bc4ff", "slug": "hail-wedded-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/hail-wedded-love", "text": "Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Milton", "slug": "john-milton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise Lost", "slug": "paradise-lost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47" }, { "id": "3037f1cc-40e0-41d0-bc32-9e9709505b14", "slug": "my-latest-found", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/my-latest-found", "text": "My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Milton", "slug": "john-milton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton" }, "book": { "title": "Paradise Lost", "slug": "paradise-lost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47" }, { "id": "039764a0-3c22-4a03-995f-4e50039f9857", "slug": "freely-we-serve", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/freely-we-serve", "text": "Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; 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I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Erica Jong", "slug": "erica-jong", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong" }, "book": { "title": "Fear of Flying", "slug": "fear-of-flying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "desire", "slug": "desire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erica_Jong#Fear_of_Flying_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39" }, { "id": "668fa7dd-4a75-4713-bee0-c0dc37abaac7", "slug": "underneath-it-all", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/underneath-it-all", "text": "Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Erica Jong", "slug": "erica-jong", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong" }, "book": { "title": "Fear of Flying", "slug": "fear-of-flying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "desire", "slug": "desire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erica_Jong#Fear_of_Flying_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39" }, { "id": "ebb83bbf-bd72-45dd-997f-bde553d0999b", "slug": "love-at-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/love-at-the", "text": "Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert Frost", "slug": "robert-frost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost" }, "book": { "title": "New Hampshire", "slug": "new-hampshire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "passion", "slug": "passion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost#New_Hampshire_(1923)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:37" }, { "id": "bc7b13be-b9a9-473c-b268-e2d2a1f03ea1", "slug": "i-will-fight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard/i-will-fight", "text": "I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. 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Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self \"unspotted from the world;\" but lovers talk of it just as much when they talk of the \"world well lost.\" Astronomically speaking, I understand that England is situated on the world; similarly, I suppose that the Church was a part of the world, and even the lovers inhabitants of that orb. But they all felt a certain truth—the truth that the moment you love anything the world becomes your foe. Thus Mr. Kipling does certainly know the world; he is a man of the world, with all the narrowness that belongs to those imprisoned in that planet. He knows England as an intelligent English gentleman knows Venice. He has been to England a great many times; he has stopped there for long visits. But he does not belong to it, or to any place; and the proof of it is this, that he thinks of England as a place. The moment we are rooted in a place, the place vanishes. 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