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Norman Mailer Quotes about Love

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Norman Mailer
Love, Life, Change
1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

Norman Mailer
Love, Simple, Mind

I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

Norman Mailer
Love, Sacrifice, Loss
Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer
Love, Art, People
Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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