LOVE QUOTES VIII

quotations about love

love quote

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Pendennis


Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

DAVID MINKOFF

Oy!

David Minkoff is an alternative healthcare expert, guest lecturer, and writer. He authors two weekly newsletters, the BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter and the Optimum Health Report.

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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When love is reached through suffering ... it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


My love is a bird
Happily singing on my shoulder
Would you like to be the cage
A sweet cage forever?

JINSONG GUO

"R U Still There?", Love Poems N' Quotes by Dr. Guo

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What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite.

GRANT ALLEN

"Falling in Love", Falling in Love and Other Essays


To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone.
What kind of tide can an ocean bestow
if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

SARAH LINDSAY

"Aunt Lydia Practices Loving Komodo Dragons", Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower


Only love makes fruitful the soul.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond

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Strange
indeed how love in other
ways so particular
will pick a corner
in that charnel-house
tidy it and coil up there, perhaps
even fall asleep--her face
turned to the wall!

CHINUA ACHEBE

Attento, Soul Brother!

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Love, how many roads to reach a kiss.

PABLO NERUDA

"Love, How many Roads to Reach a Kiss"

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But now I know that there is no killing
A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death.
There is no hushing, there is no stilling
That which is part of your life and breath.
You may bury it deep, and leave behind you
The land, the people that knew your slain;
It will push the sods from its grave, and find you
On wastes of water or desert plain.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"From the Grave"


To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Jan. 19, 1938

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Love's never a fair trade.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians


If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

PLATO

The Republic

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

UMBERTO ECO

The Island of the Day Before

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In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

MICHAEL PALMER

The Fifth Vial

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