Jeanette Winterson Quotes

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

Nobody loves everybody.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.

My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.