„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

„You never turned around to see the frowns, on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did, tricks for you.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone

„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)

„When you reach for a star
Only angels are there
And it's not very far
Just a step on a stair
Take a look at those clowns
And the tricks that they play
In the circus of life
Life is bitter and gay There are clowns in the night
Clowns everywhere
See how they run
Run from despair …“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

This was a song written for the soundtrack of The Magician of Lublin (1979), based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Kate's singing of it appears at times in the background within the film - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

„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

„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.

„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!

„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

„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

„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