Top 1200 Love Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And hes done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World, a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful hes out there--watching our every move.

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.