James Merrill Quotes

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Free love? As if love is anything but free!

Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off. You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

I can't give a soundbite for love or money.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.