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Love Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- [T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender…
- The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
- Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose,
- Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand…
- If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk…
- I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
- The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
- You're either reading a book or you're not.
- Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
- He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.
- Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).
- ...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
- Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
- Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
- But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person…
- Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
- Use well thy freedom.
- What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him…
- Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is…
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide