Raymond Carver Quotes

One should always be in love.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

There's nothing unusual about love.

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

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

Sex and Love are two words that anyone can relate to, no matter the nationality or age.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance.

Love is what makes the world go around. I know it's a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.

There are many doors to the heart.

I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.

You never know when you actually fall in love.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.