Modern Love Quotes

“I didn't love like the women who swiped left and right from one heartbreak to another. I couldn't just trade some skin for scraps of attention from men who would never use a Swiss knife to declare their love for me, by scraping my initials on the bark of an old oak tree or promise me a forever with a lovelock on Ponte Des Arts. I needed a Romeo. I deserved a Shakespeare in love. I deserved a man who had birds flying out of his ribcage every time he saw me smile.”
― Sakshi Narula, Lover

“I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“Beyond watching eyes
With sweet and tender kisses
Our souls reached out to each other
In breathless wonder

And when I awoke
From a vast and smiling peace
I found you bathed in morning light
Quietly studying
All the messages on my phone

(Love Poem)”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“It’s a fallacy that this generation does not know how to love as its predecessor did. Truth of the matter is, modern love is a constantly moving target. In fact, it’s moving at the fastest pace than our predecessors ever had to deal with. It’s flying at the speed of a fighter jet. To keep up with it you have to constantly be evolving, and that means being constantly in touch with your own sensuality. Our ultimate survival lies in our sensuality. Period.”
― Lebo Grand

“All the subjects are becoming more modern, day by day. Similarly, love means was to sacrifice yourself for beloved, but modern love means sex and to go ahead to the next.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I, Lisa K Friedman, being of sound mind and broken foot, served him with a mock complaint: breach of the marriage contract.
New York Times, Modern Love”
― Lisa K. Friedman

“I, Lisa K Friedman, being of sound mind and broken foot...”
― Lisa K Friedman

“I w8 fr yr mesg the beep yr wrds of rude luv
U mke me blush w
The curve of yr letters u tch me thru my palms, my eyes”
― Lucy Sweetman

“Love revives the barbarian; - it wouldn't mean much, if it didn't. In this one respect, I suppose no man, however civilized, would wish the woman he loves to be his equal. Marriage by capture can't quite be done away with. You say you have not the least love for me; if you had, should I like you to confess it instantly? A man must plead and woo; but there are different ways. I can't kneel before you and exclaim about my miserable unworthiness - for I am not unworthy of you. I shall never call you queen and goddess - unless in delirium, and I think I should soon weary of a woman who put her head under my foot. Just because I am stronger than you, and have stronger passions, I take that advantage, - try to overcome, as I may, the womanly resistance which is one of your charms.”
― George Gissing, The Odd Women

“Love is a curious mix of adventure, attraction, desire, experimentation, rule-breaking, rule-making, flirtation...and fear. While deception may be as old as love itself, modern love comes with modern deception and modern fears.”
― Prachi Gangwani, Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India

“Thanks to smart phones and the Internet, the way we meet someone new, fall in love, have fights and have sex has changed remarkably. We can be in bed in crushed pyjamas and a bag of Doritos in one hand, and with the other, swipe right on the next person we end up with. Flirting has taken the form of sending memes and lifted the burden of being witty and romantic. And seduction…well, seduction has been reduced to dirty text messages and reluctant nudes. It’s all high-speed and low effort.”
― Prachi Gangwani, Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India

“In this day and age — the great age of modernists — you don’t ruin a love by being unfaithful or unjust; you just have to be truthful and yourself. That alone will scare everyone off — including your own sense of self-worth.”
― Laura Chouette, The Willow Song