LOVE QUOTES XLV

quotations about love

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Few people love with the violence they hate.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


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

JOHN KEATS

letter to Fanny Brawne, Oct. 13, 1819

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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

TOM ROBBINS

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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.

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Love, however doomed, had the capacity to attach buoys to the soul.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death

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Happy is love or friendship when returned--
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

BION OF SMYRNA

"Friendship"

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To have loved, to have been made happy thus,
What better fate has life in store for us?

ARTHUR SYMONS

"Variations Upon Love"


Love, they say, is a pain
Infinite as the soul,
Ever a longing to be
Love's, to infinity,
Ever a longing in vain
After a vanishing goal.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"Rosa Mundi"


Love he comes and Love he tarries
Just as fate or fancy carries;
Longest stays, when sorest chidden;
Laughs and flies, when press'd and bidden.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love

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The ideal of romantic love stands in opposition to much of our history, as we shall see. First of all, it is individualistic. It rejects the view of human beings as interchangeable units, and it attaches the highest importance to individual differences as well as to individual choice. Romantic love is egoistic, in the philosophical, not in the petty, sense. Egoism as a philosophical doctrine holds that self-realization and personal happiness are the moral goals of life, and romantic love is motivated by the desire for personal happiness. Romantic love is secular. In its union of physical with spiritual pleasure in sex and love, as well as in its union of romance and daily life, romantic love is a passionate commitment to this earth and to the exalted happiness that life on earth can offer.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

The Psychology of Romantic Love


True love turns words and feelings into actions.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You


The flame of anger, bright and brief,
Sharpens the barb of Love.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Tell Me Not Things Past all Belief

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I think love adds to everything. I'm an old softie about that. I think love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have [a relationship], you're always looking for one. It's the motivator, the driver.

SHERYL CROW

Dr. Drew interview, 2001

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Now on the summit of Love's topmost peak
Kiss we and part; no farther can we go:
And better death than we from high to low
Should dwindle or decline from strong to weak.
We have found all, there is no more to seek;
All have we proved, no more is there to know;
And Time could only tutor us to eke
Out rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow.
We cannot keep at such a height as this;
And even straining souls like ours inhale
But once in life so rarified a bliss.
What if we lingered till love's breath should fail!
Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss,
Then down by separate pathways to the vale.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"Love's Wisdom", Lyrical Poems

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913) was an English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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When does love cease? When one begins to love anew.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

The Law of Love

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

BETTE DAVIS

The Lonely Life

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All love is lost but upon God alone.

WILLIAM DUNBAR

The Merle and the Nightingale

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Love -- thou art deep --
I cannot cross thee --
But, were there Two
Instead of One --
Rower and Yacht -- some sov'reign Summer --
Who knows -- but we'd reach the Sun?

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love thou art high"

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