Paulo Coelho Quotes

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Pain is love.

I gave you the best of me.

Love is not a victory march

love at any age takes everything you've got.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

You’re the only thing I’ve ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they’d have to dig two graves ‘cause I couldn’t live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

I'm not despairing of love at all.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.