Love Quotes by Maurice Sendak

“I'll eat you up I love you so.”

— Maurice Sendak

Art has always been my salvation.

— Maurice Sendak

“They leave me and I love them more.”

— Maurice Sendak

And the walls became the world all around.

— Maurice Sendak

Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!

— Maurice Sendak

“Oh, please don't go — I'll eat you up — I love you so!”

— Maurice Sendak

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

— Maurice Sendak

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

— Maurice Sendak

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them…

— Maurice Sendak

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

— Maurice Sendak

Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us…

— Maurice Sendak

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

— Maurice Sendak

“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!”

— Maurice Sendak

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction,…

— Maurice Sendak

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls…

— Maurice Sendak