Orson Scott Card Quotes

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

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

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.