LOVE QUOTES XI
quotations about love
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
SYLVIA PLATH
"The Stones", The Colossus and Other Poems
Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live!"
EMILY DICKINSON
"While It Is Alive"
Once upon a time in absolute reality, a very handsome guy in his late twenties approached me at a conference in Malaysia that I was attending as a speaker. He sat next to me and with a strong gaze said sweetly, "Ma'am, I am planning a perfect crime and I need your help." I replied almost choking on my pasta giggling and mustered a, "Well, what help?" He replied with a smoldering intensity which could give competition to Shah Rukh Khan with "I want to steal your heart." I was on floor laughing and if not anything else I was impressed with his confidence, charm, and the honesty in his eyes. I did not help him in the 'love crime' but interestingly, that instance indeed made me believe that someday I would meet my soul mate just like that and also I would, with utmost sincerity from the bottom of my lungs, kidneys and other organs, help him in stealing my heart forever and ever. THAT is the magic of love.
AMISHA SETHI
"Live is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016
Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.
NORA ROBERTS
Black Hills
We who were loved will never
unlive that crippling fever.
ADRIENNE RICH
"After a Sentence in 'Malte Laurids Brigge'", Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
UMBERTO ECO
Foucault's Pendulum
Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
If love is the first of the passions, it is because it gratifies them all.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.
Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.
TOBSHA LEARNER
Quiver: A Book of Erotic Tales
Love has both honey and gall in abundance.
ROMAN PROVERB
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Love is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Communism"
Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, no one better deserves our attention, than that love, which arises betwixt the sexes, as well on account of its force and violence, as those curious principles of philosophy, for which it affords us an uncontestable argument. It is plain, that this affection, in its most natural state, is derived from the conjunction of three different impressions or passions, viz. The pleasing sensation arising from beauty; the bodily appetite for generation; and a generous kindness or good-will. The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. The question is how the bodily appetite is excited by it.
DAVID HUME
"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love Betwixt the Sexes", A Treatise of Human Nature
To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.
CHRIS SEIDMAN
Little Buddy
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
BIBLE
I John 4:18