„I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.“

— William Saroyan

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„Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!“
— Mikhail Bulgakov
„That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!“
— Hermann Hesse
„Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”“When you love somebody.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.“
— Henry Miller
„If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.“
— Sylvia Plath