LOVE QUOTES XXXVIII

quotations about love

What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare

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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


Oh love's sweet enchantment is common,
It rules the world everywhere;
'Tis the rose in the bosom of woman,
The bouquet that man loves to wear;
'Tis the Spirit that lightens his labour,
Or whether on land or on sea;
'Tis the charm of the pipe and the tabor,
And as dear to the slave as the free!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Love"


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

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


Love. My golly, it sells diapers, don't it!

DAVID MAMET

Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues

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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain

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Love is the most destructive weapon of all, the only problem being how to contain and channel it into something that can be spanned, aimed and loosed.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires


Love is something we all talk about but rarely experience. We get sucked into settling, to waiting, to a wilting dating culture, to hatred and to meaningless rendezvous or "ghosting." Love is dying, and we're all forgetting about it.

SONYA MATEJKO

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


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth's unknown, although its height be taken.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"sonnet cxvi"

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

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I love your letters. How far is that from saying I love you? Well--about a mile. Two miles.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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When we fall in love, we hope--both egotistically and altruistically--that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

JULIAN BARNES

Nothing to Be Frightened Of


When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


To men of a certain type
The suspicion that they are incapable of loving
Is as disturbing to their self-esteem
As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party

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O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W. B. YEATS

"Brown Penny"

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

JOYCE KILMER

"In Memory"

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Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.

YIDDISH PROVERB


Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Ranthorpe


Love is blind.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales

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Love is an amazing magnet.

NICHOLSON BAKER

Traveling Sprinkler

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