LOVE QUOTES XI

quotations about love

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Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.


To have refused love is very much more picturesque than not to have been offered it.

STELLA BENSON

Pipers and a Dancer

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Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

TOBSHA LEARNER

Quiver: A Book of Erotic Tales

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Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.

NORA ROBERTS

Black Hills


Once upon a time in absolute reality, a very handsome guy in his late twenties approached me at a conference in Malaysia that I was attending as a speaker. He sat next to me and with a strong gaze said sweetly, "Ma'am, I am planning a perfect crime and I need your help." I replied almost choking on my pasta giggling and mustered a, "Well, what help?" He replied with a smoldering intensity which could give competition to Shah Rukh Khan with "I want to steal your heart." I was on floor laughing and if not anything else I was impressed with his confidence, charm, and the honesty in his eyes. I did not help him in the 'love crime' but interestingly, that instance indeed made me believe that someday I would meet my soul mate just like that and also I would, with utmost sincerity from the bottom of my lungs, kidneys and other organs, help him in stealing my heart forever and ever. THAT is the magic of love.

AMISHA SETHI

"Live is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016


If love is the first of the passions, it is because it gratifies them all.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Many think that love is about always being on the same page with our partner, feeling romantic and living in harmony. Threats to these experiences can feel like obstacles that get in the way of love. But love is as much about the obstacles as it is about the bliss. Love is accepting difference, recovering from conflict and tolerating discord. Fundamentally, love is allowing your partner to be entirely who they are, even when their very being needles you to the core. It is a profound acceptance of the personhood of your lover, while dropping your need for them to be anything different. Yes, it's a tall order. But who said it was going to be easy?

AARON BALICK

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live!"

EMILY DICKINSON

"While It Is Alive"

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He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

UMBERTO ECO

Foucault's Pendulum


Love is not enough to keep a marriage intact but it is necessary for keeping it strong, healthy, and enjoyable. If a couple is not in love, over time, they will find themselves lacing in the drive they need to make their marriage work. Think of love like fuel; without it, a relationship will eventually break down and stop moving. Being in a loveless marriage is no fun.

VIKKI ZIEGLER

"The Top 7 Reasons Why Marriages Last", Huffington Post, November 14, 2017


Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


When there is love, you can live even without happiness.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Notes From Underground

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We who were loved will never
unlive that crippling fever.

ADRIENNE RICH

"After a Sentence in 'Malte Laurids Brigge'", Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

SYLVIA PLATH

"The Stones", The Colossus and Other Poems

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Love makes its votaries wretched beings whose souls are not within their own keeping. Therefore man demands to be free to love in order to become cured of love and woman demands to be free to love in order to live for love: and herein the calamitous disparity.

MARIAN COX

"The Fools of Love", The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays


Oh love is the wondrous magician
That changes dull lead into gold;
If it wounds it can play the physician,
And cure both the young and the old!
Then hail to the glorious passion
That makes what is earthly, sublime!
That cares not for custom or fashion,
But dwells like an angel with time!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Love"


Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

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Love has both honey and gall in abundance.

ROMAN PROVERB


Maybe the act of love came too late. As a career move, I should have lost my burdensome virginity at thirteen or fourteen, when there would have been no question of lasting attachment and no desire for one. As it was, I shook when I removed my clothes and I cried after it was done, not out of pain or disappointment but out of an up-rush of muddling emotion which twenty-four hours later I was ready to call love.

HILARY MANTEL

An Experiment in Love

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In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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