LOVE QUOTES LVI

quotations about love

Love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it.

KOBO ABE

The Face of Another

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Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night.... You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"Death", Winesburg, Ohio

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Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

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.

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Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

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It's love that makes the world go round!

W. S. GILBERT

Iolanthe

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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


If you want to be loved, then love.

ROMAN PROVERB


If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.

C. W. LEADBEATER

The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

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I really thought that love would save us all.

JOHN LENNON

attributed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1980

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Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade. And when this enchantment has fled, then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love.

T. S. ARTHUR

"The Evening Before Marriage", Orange Blossoms

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


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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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

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Let me prevail as of old, as lover, as lord, as king, or have done with Love's tyrant rule.

WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT

To Nimue

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If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

THICH NHAT HANH

O Magazine, Feb. 2007