Martin Amis Quotes

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

In the world it is little comprehended what love is; and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying "What is love?" What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.