LOVE QUOTES II

quotations about love

love quote

If I give my heart to you
I must be sure
From the very start
That you would love me more than her

THE BEATLES

"If I Fell", A Hard Day's Night

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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Everything is a mystery with Love--his arrows, his quiver, his torch, his childlike appearance. It's not the work of one day to understand the breadth of his science.

MINA SAMUELS

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


Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

APHRA BEHN

The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock

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.


Love is the key-note of the universe--
The theme, the melody.

HENRY ABBEY

"The Troubadour"

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O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!

THOMAS DEKKER

Blurt, Master Constable

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Now do I know that Love is blind, for I
Can see no beauty on this beauteous earth,
No life, no light, no hopefulness, no mirth,
Pleasure nor purpose, when thou art not nigh.
Thy absence exiles sunshine from the sky,
Seres Spring's maturity, checks Summer's birth,
Leaves linnet's pipe as sad as plover's cry,
And makes me in abundance find but dearth.
But when thy feet flutter the dark, and thou
With orient eyes dawnest on my distress,
Suddenly sings a bird on every bough,
The heavens expand, the earth grows less and less,
The ground is buoyant as the ether now,
And all looks lovely in thy loveliness.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"Love's Blindness", Lyrical Poems

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913) was an English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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Love's witch'ry once ensnared my heart;
Oh! how enchanting all things seemed!
My cares, and troubles, left no smart,
Elysium, all the world I deemed;
But when the fond delusion passed,
I woke to anguish long to last!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Change"


Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

notes, Queen Mab


Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

APHRA BEHN

The Younger Brother

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.

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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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.


Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark
Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

GERALD MASSEY

"To My Wife"

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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

THICH NHAT HANH

Living Buddha, Living Christ

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Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

PAMELA OSLIE

Love Colors

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This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through oblivion

DEPECHE MODE

"I Feel You", Songs of Faith and Devotion


Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

WASHINGTON IRVING

attributed, Golden Gleams of Thought: From the Words of Leading Orators

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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

SARAH DESSEN

This Lullaby

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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love is ... the by-product of living in a decent flat.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam"

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