Bell Hooks Quotes

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

Love is the true condition of human life.

To speak of love is to make love.

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

True love is when you're cheating on a person but the thought of them still makes your eyes smile!

The test of love is in how we live.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

Love ... is a living reality.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.