LOVE QUOTES XXV

quotations about love

love quote

O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017


We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


When they speak of it, this love of theirs, they speak as of a kind of grand mal brought on catastrophically by a bacillus unknown to science but everywhere present in the air about us, like the tuberculosis spore, and to which all but the coldest constitutions are susceptible.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Call us what you will, we are made such by love.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization

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It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.

IRISH PROVERB

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It is the terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in a play not with a woman of the outside world but with a doll inside our brain -- the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one we shall ever possess -- whom the arbitrary power of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the Balbec of my dreams had been from the real Balbec; an artificial creation which by degrees, and to our own hurt, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

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Love ... must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning -- a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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Love begins at home.

GERMAN PROVERB


No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

SOPHOCLES

Antigone


Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Garden of Epicurus

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Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.

ANONYMOUS


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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I want love on demand. Take it away when it hurts, but deliver it when desired, straight to my door.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


If with love thy heart has burned;
If thy love is unreturned;
Hide thy grief within thy breast,
Though it tear thee unexpressed;
For when love has once departed
From the eyes of the false-hearted,
And one by one has torn off quite
The bandages of purple light;
Though thou wert the loveliest
Form the soul had ever dressed,
Thou shalt seem, in each reply,
A vixen to his altered eye;
Thy softest pleadings seem too bold,
Thy praying lute will seem to scold;
Though thou kept the straightest road,
Yet thou errest far and broad.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

To Rhea


Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters