LOVE QUOTES V

quotations about love

love quote

Love's a bully, pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman.
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together a man and a woman
Stick together man and a woman
Stick together.

U2

"Do You Feel Loved", Pop


All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no control over it. But then, that is not so surprising, since love is basically chemistry.

JIM AL-KHALILI

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


Love is ... the by-product of living in a decent flat.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Love is ... a cloak of suburban guilt.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


It's logical that everyone wants to be in love. Then, for a while, life isn't taken up with the tedium of thinking everything through, talking things through. It's nice to be able to notice small objects or small moments, to point them out and to have someone eager to pretend that there's more to them than it seems.

ANN BEATTIE

"Moving Water", The New Yorker Stories

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Love had a thousand shapes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


PIGLET: How do you spell 'love'?
POOH: You don't spell it, you feel it.

A. A. MILNE

Winnie the Pooh

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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

ERICH SEGAL

Love Story

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules.

TOM ROBBINS

Still Life with Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which was made into a movie in 1993 starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.


Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

ERICH FROMM

The Art of Loving

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Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Sandman, #65

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

VICTOR HUGO

Les Miserables

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, Sep. 30, 1779

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You can't love people into who you need them to be.

JULIE MITCHELL

"Love is not written in the stars", Corsicana Daily Sun, November 6, 2017


It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Paris Review, spring 1977

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