LOVE QUOTES XII

quotations about love

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If thou love thine equal, it is no conquest; if thy superior, thou shalt be envied; if thine inferior, laughed at. If one that is beautiful, her colour will change before thou get thy desire; if one that is wise, she will overreach thee so far that thou shalt never touch her; if virtuous, she will eschew such fond affection; if deformed, she is not worthy of any affection; if she be rich, she needeth thee not; if poor, thou needest not her. If old, why shouldst thou love her; if young, why should she love thee?

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


Love has become but a dream and desire in minds free to dream and desire the unattainable. Love has become the great make-believe of adult play. Love is an imaginary pirouette amidst the lock-steps of realities. Love is a luxuriating in the racial cradle of temperament. Love is a cunning dipsomania carried about in public like the black bottle hugged beneath an old lady's shawl. Love is many things, and plays strange roles in the mind of humanity today; and for the indulgence of its delicate emotional calisthenics man has provided the theater and books and many other brilliant exploitations of lucrative fiction.

MARIAN COX

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


Love is what helps mothers lift cars off kids, it's what helps people in earthquakes lift boulders off people who are crushed.

BEN HERRING

"Former New Zealand star Ben Herring believes love is the best language when trying to motivate players", Daily Mail, September 1, 2016


Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

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.


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

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Notes From Underground

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov

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Love's tendrils round the heart doth twine,
As round the oak doth cling the vine.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


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"


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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It is not the healthy, the confident, the proud, the joyous, the happy, that one must love -- they have no need of one's love! Arrogant and indifferent, they accept love only as homage that is theirs to command, as their due. The devotion of another is to them a mere embellishment, an ornament for the hair, a bracelet on the arm, not the whole meaning and bliss of their lives. Only those with whom life has dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love. He who devotes his life to them atones to them for what life has taken from them. They alone know how to love and be loved as one should love -- gratefully and humbly.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Love is always having to say you're sorry.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death

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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

BIBLE

I John 4:18

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I love the one who punishes me well.

ANNE RICE

Beauty's Release

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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God


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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There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

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