„People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close.“

„It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.“

—  Tom Stoppard British playwright 1937

„Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.“

—  Orson Scott Card, buch Ender's Shadow

Quelle: Ender's Shadow

„The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.“

—  Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997

Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s

„I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.“

—  Jenny Han, buch To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Quelle: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

„People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Variante: People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

„Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.“

—  Lorrie Moore American writer 1957

„Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.“

—  R. Scott Bakker, buch The Warrior Prophet

Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Quelle: The Warrior Prophet (2005)

„If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly… well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike…“

—  Zach Galifianakis American actor and comedian 1969

Live at the Purple Onion (2007)

„Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.“

—  Patch Adams Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945

Quelle: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10

„There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns… and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)“

—  D.J. MacHale, The Quillan Games

Variante: There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns... and clowns. -Bobby Pendragon
Quelle: The Quillan Games

„Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.“

—  Mary E. Pearson young-adult fiction writer 1955

Quelle: The Beauty of Darkness

„I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.“

—  Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

„Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.“

—  Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970

Quelle: This is Where I Leave You

„Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945

Quelle: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 184.

„It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.“

—  Melina Marchetta, buch On the Jellicoe Road

Quelle: On the Jellicoe Road

„Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Quelle: Styxx

„No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.“

—  Terry Pratchett, buch Men at Arms

Quelle: Men at Arms

„Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.“

—  Jon Krakauer, buch Into the Wild

Quelle: Into the Wild