Love Quotes Quote by James Baldwin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth.”

“I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.”

“Whose little boy are you?”

“The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.”

“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

“You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield”

““That I shall love always,”

“You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.”

““Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.”

“Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.”

“I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back.”