LOVE QUOTES LIV

quotations about love

Love knows no law.

PORTUGUESE PROVERB


I really thought that love would save us all.

JOHN LENNON

attributed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1980

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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Words of Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love is a process -- not a static condition. It's a commitment to do the work and come back into relationship with each other. To move through whatever gets in the way of your love for one another.

SHANA PARKER

"3 Myths About Unconditional Love That Can Ruin Your Marriage", Good Men Project, December 25, 2015


I've heard it called a Cinderella story, I've heard it called magic. But it's not magic, it's love. And when love is true from the heart, nothing magic about it.

BILL MAHON

"Love From the Ashes", KWTX, November 13, 2017


In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked at.

KOBO ABE

The Box Man

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Love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Christmas Train

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Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Lady Midnight


It's love that makes the world go round!

W. S. GILBERT

Iolanthe

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Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

O. HENRY

"The Count and the Wedding Guest"

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Love is enough: though the World be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder
And this day draw a veil over all deeds pass'd over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter;
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

WILLIAM MORRIS

"Love Is Enough"

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Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"


Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Optimism"


To find love round your ways,
A shield in evil days;
A robe that keeps you warm,
As ermine, from the storm;
To wear it as a jewel-flame,
A cross of honor, with a royal name;
To sit a queen, unmoved
By want or grief--this is to be beloved.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"The Difference"

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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Light in August


This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove