Chocolate is my favorite hobby. No explanation needed – I’m sure you all understand. I always keep an emergency piece (or two) of chocolate in my purse and never go to bed without at least one bite of it. And, I am most certainly not alone.

The following 20 chocolate quotes capture the passion and deep-seated love for chocolate:

“All You need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.” – Lora Brody

“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.” – Baron Justus von Liebig

“It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.” – Miranda Ingram

“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.” – Michael Pollan

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.” – Katharine Hepburn

“If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.” – Jane Seabrook

“The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“Any sane person loves chocolate.” – Bob Greene

“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.” – Michael Levine

“Every now and then, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don’t trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they’re probably – and this must be said – total duds in bed.” – Steve Almond

“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” – Fernando Pessoa

“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.” – Matt Lauer

“I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.” – Deanna Troi

“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?” – Marquise de Sévigné

“My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.” – Alicia Silverstone

“Once in a while I say, ‘Go for it’ and I eat chocolate.” – Claudia Schiffer

Aylin Erman is founder of GlowKitchen. There she shares step-by-step picture recipes of her plant-based creations. Aylin lives and works in Istanbul as a writer and editor at the country’s first-ever green-living and sustainability platform, Yesilist. Like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter to keep up with food news and recipes.

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