LOVE QUOTES L

quotations about love

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.

JOHN LYLY

Gallathea and Midas


Love is my religion--I could die for that.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Fanny Brawne, Oct. 13, 1819

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When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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True love turns words and feelings into actions.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You


For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

"Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart", Glamour


What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Powerbook


Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

JAMES REDFIELD

The Celestine Prophecy


For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure's inventions are soon exhausted.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


You're not sick, you're just in love.

IRVING BERLIN

"You're Just in Love"

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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter

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Love and faith are seen in works.

GERMAN PROVERB


In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept--our own selves--that we love.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"


If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation"

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He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows
All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

ELSA BARKER

He Who Knows Love

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Oh! For love, for the painfully nourished, tenderly cherished, sweet frenzies illusion, the known-illusion within the globule of sentimental cynicism. For romantic love, then, I sacrifice honor, decency, human kindness, charity, honesty, friendship and the future -- all, (ah!) for love!

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

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Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Search for Love"

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".