LOVE QUOTES XII

quotations about 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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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Wind, Sand and Stars

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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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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.


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 a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

TIM LEBBON

Face

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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

ANDRE MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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Love is the poetry of the senses. It has the destiny of all that which is great in man and of all that which proceeds from his thought. Either it is sublime, or it is not. When once it exists, it exists forever and goes on always increasing. This is the love which the ancients made the child of heaven and earth.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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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


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

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


I love the one who punishes me well.

ANNE RICE

Beauty's Release

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Love: noun. The force that allows us to overcome our seemingly irreconcilable differences and empowers us to experience the peace of one-ness.

BURT GERSHATER

"Inner Heroes", Arizona Daily Sun, August 20, 2018


Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, no one better deserves our attention, than that love, which arises betwixt the sexes, as well on account of its force and violence, as those curious principles of philosophy, for which it affords us an uncontestable argument. It is plain, that this affection, in its most natural state, is derived from the conjunction of three different impressions or passions, viz. The pleasing sensation arising from beauty; the bodily appetite for generation; and a generous kindness or good-will. The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. The question is how the bodily appetite is excited by it.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love Betwixt the Sexes", A Treatise of Human Nature

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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


Love is always having to say you're sorry.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

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


To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.

CHRIS SEIDMAN

Little Buddy

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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 is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Communism"

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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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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