LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

love quote

Love abounds in all things,
excels from the depths to beyond the stars,
is lovingly disposed to all things.
She has given the king on high
the kiss of peace.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

"Caritas abundat"


Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things,
But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).


No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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Love is many things and sometimes we are never really sure if it even exists, but all I know is that if you were to show me her soul in a photograph, I wouldn't even ask to see the others.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry

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We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language

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To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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He gives a ripe apple for an apple-blossom that changes an old love for a new.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Love's language everywhere is known.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.

YIDDISH PROVERB


Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

WITTER BYNNER

"Rose-Time"

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians


When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Men's Wives


If they substituted the word "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand--Love--is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.

SPIKE LEE

Do the Right Thing

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No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

SOPHOCLES

Antigone


When you find love you'll realize love was always there in one way or another.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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