Invisible Man Love Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me. (9.51)

At this point in the novel, love is not part of the narrator's life because he believes it would interfere with his ambition. Later, this turns out to not be the case.

Quote #5

And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man – but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division so I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love. (Epilogue.28)

Although the narrator could easily be in a place of anger and hate by the end of the novel, he realizes in telling his story that it needs to be approached through both love and hate.