Bell Hooks Quotes

I've always been a champion of love.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.

One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Love makes requests, not demands.

A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Art is much, but love is more.

I am here because of love.

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

Love is the very essence of life.