LOVE QUOTES VIII

quotations about love

love quote

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

DAN SIMMONS

Olympos

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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Elmer Gantry

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Love will have its day.

U2

"North and South of the River", Staring at the Sun

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Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy.

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

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Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

JOHN DRYDEN

Tyrannic Love


Running like a river trying to find the ocean
Flowers in the concrete
Climbing over fences, blooming in the shadows
Places that you can't see
Coming through the melody when the night bird sings
Love is a wild thing, yeah

KACEY MUSGRAVES

"Love Is a Wild Thing"


To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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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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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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Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart

SAPPHO

Without Warning

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love

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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

JOHN DONNE

The Anagram

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Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness

U2

"Love Is Blindness", Achtung Baby

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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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Love is the garden of the young.

HERBERT KRETZMER

"A Heart Full of Love (Reprise)", Les Miserables


Love, how many roads to reach a kiss.

PABLO NERUDA

"Love, How many Roads to Reach a Kiss"

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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

APHRA BEHN

The History of the Nun

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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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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