LOVE QUOTES XXVI

quotations about love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Women Writers Talk


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

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

DEPECHE MODE

"The Love Thieves", Ultra

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What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth


Love's fire colors once our neutral form, to blacken to eternal embers.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Love is but a fire that is to be transmitted.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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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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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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The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse


Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

SANDRA BERNHARD

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, it's sunshine.

THE BEATLES

"The Word", Rubber Soul

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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Though she had been besieged, courted, and pursued by men who had fallen in love with her, she did not in her heart believe in the existence of love. It seemed to her as unreal as the painted drop scenes, the temples of love, and the banks of roses that formed the settings for her dances. But though she was cold and insensitive to love, she was esteemed a wonderful mistress. She herself practiced love as a duty imposed by her profession, a part to be played that might sometimes please but always fatigued her and called for a high degree of art.

VICKI BAUM

Grand Hotel

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

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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First we love within, then we love the world.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

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Christians see love as a vertical (love for God) and horizontal (love for fellow human beings). Just as the vertical and horizontal wood or metal come together to form a cross, so also love for God and love for fellow human beings define the whole essence of love.

FRANCIS EWHERIDO

"Love is a cross", Vanguard, November 11, 2017


Burning with tender love is not really an image for someone who has warmed mercury over a gentle flame. In slowness, gentleness, and hope we have the hidden force of moral perfection and of material transmutation.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Formation of the Scientific Mind

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