Jonathan Franzen Quotes

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal - a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.