LOVE QUOTES XXXV

quotations about love

Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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Love may turn to indifference with possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Offshore Pirate"

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A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


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

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

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Love is the centre and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense
For all the ills that have been, or may be.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Dec. 20, 1810

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Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld

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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


Strangelove
Strange highs and strange lows
Strangelove
That's how my love goes
Strangelove
Will you give it to me
Will you take the pain
I will give to you
Again and again
And will you return it

DEPECHE MODE

"Strangelove", Music for the Masses


In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was an English playwright, poet, and novelist from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.


To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions

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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G. K. CHESTERTON

attributed, Life is a Verb

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