LOVE QUOTES XXI

quotations about love

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A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

THOMAS HARDY

The Return of the Native

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How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye--
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Love's Language"


Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

JAMES JOYCE

notes for his play Exiles

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Love defies all calculation. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

attributed, Proust Was a Neuroscientist


Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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There is no love that is not an echo.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that hapiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilac opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms


Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

KEVIN LEMAN

Smart Women Know When to Say No

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Love is a moral drunkenness; and, whilst it lasts, the shrew seems gentle, the tigress a dove, the flirt constant, and the fiend an angel.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

PABLO NERUDA

Morning XII

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Love and blindness are twin sisters.

RUSSIAN PROVERB

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Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the VARIETY of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love MUST be multiform, else it is just tyranny, just death.

D. H. LAWRENCE

The Ladybird

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".


Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew


Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?

EMILY BRONTE

Love and Friendship

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to Blanche Jennings, May 8, 1909

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".

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False love is like the counterfeiter's coin,
A criminal deception.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Love's Counterfeits"


Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Changing My Mind, Among Others

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In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections