LOVE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about love

People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

journal, Apr. 4, 1831

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There is no passion that more excites us to every thing that is noble and generous than virtuous Love.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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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


Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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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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Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB


There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.

MAUD LINDSAY

"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories

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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

official website


Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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Love is kind of like a unicorn -- elusive and very hard to explain.

OLIVIA TRUFFAUT-WONG

"11 Movies To Watch When You're In Love To Get You Through The Good, The Bad, & All The Feels", Bustle, December 2015


Maybe love never dies, maybe it hides between our veins that frail our nerves, maybe it is the clog in our arteries that makes our heart ache ... maybe love is like a mysterious stowaway living inside our body that our cells keep chasing but it never gets caught & that chase keeps us alive.

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


Love is the power that can anchor and transform both our conflicts and our compromises, as we take firm and steady steps toward big and worthy goals. Although we've banished talk of love from our public discourse, we need to place it back where it belongs -- front and center, right alongside high standards and expectations.

KEN WAGNER

"Back to School -- New Statewide Offerings Include Love", Westerly Sun, August 31, 2016


There's always a side of folly with any serving of love. And isn't that what makes it so delicious?

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


Viewed from the supposed heights of reason, someone else's great love looks rather ordinary.

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


Love is the rule of rules, the key to all mysteries.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Even kindergarten love is hard work.

JEFF HICKS

"Kindergarten love flourishes, 50 years later", The Record, September 3, 2018


Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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