Hanif Kureishi Quotes

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please don't become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there, and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

I've always believed that if you're truly in love with someone, you shouldn't be able to answer the question 'What do you love about him?' with any kind of real satisfaction.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.