LOVE QUOTES XLI

quotations about love

The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land,
And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime.
Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots
O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows;
And, where Love looked on with glorious eye,
These quicken'd germs of everlastingness
Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!

GERALD MASSEY

"Wooed and Won"


I loved a being, an idea of my own mind, which had no real existence. I concreted this abstract of perfection, I annexed this fictitious quality to the idea presented by a name; the being, whom that name signified, was by no means worthy of this. This is the truth: Unless I am determinedly blind -- unless I am resolved causelessly and selfishly to seek destruction, I must see it. Plain! is it not plain? I loved a being; the being, whom I loved, is not what she was; consequently, as love appertains to mind, and not body, she exists no longer. I regret when I find that she never existed, but in my mind; yet does it not border on willful deception, deliberate, intentional self-deceit, to continue to love the body, when the soul is no more?

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Jun. 2, 1811


Our experience of love is more of a measure of whether we're connected with the universal source of this energy. In other words, there's some life energy that we have and sort of share with people we might be relating to that takes place, that operates whether we're sort of feeling in a state of love or not. But love is the measure of whether we're really connected with the internal source of this energy where we can consciously sort of fill up and amplify the amount of energy that we're able to take in from the inside.

JAMES REDFIELD

interview with Janice Stensrude, Mar. 24, 1994

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Love's plant must be watered with tears.

DANISH PROVERB


Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Love released from bond, and unburdened of its fetters, is love no longer.

THOMAS BURKE

A Love Lesson

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All love's details burned bright. Surely they meant something? Surely they were enough? But they came and went and there we still were, with new unfillable space between us.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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Love gratified, is love satisfied -- and love satisfied, is indifference begun.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Clarissa

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There is nothing like love. Love is foreplay to lust. It's a carnal world, let's get real.

VIKRAM BHATT

"Love is an excuse ... it's all about lust", Deccan Chronicle, March 28, 2016


Love was altogether more predatory. It was concerned with pursuit, capture, enjoyment; it was caused by beauty, the way raw red skin is caused by the sun; it was an appetite, like hunger or thirst, a physical discomfort that tortured you until it was satisfied.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires


I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

NORMAN MAILER

Harlot's Ghost


All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

EDGAR GUEST

Home Rhymes

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Biologically speaking, love is the backbone of the social bonds that are critical for our survival and adaptation. These intimate bonds alter the brain's circuitry and tip the hormonal balance to shape our memories, emotions and ultimately our 'self.' In essence, every important relationship we have shapes our brain, which in turn shapes our very relationships. Lucky for us, there are many different types of love: maternal love, familial love, the kind we feel when we cuddle a pet, hug a tree, or even a special blanket. While love itself is characterized as an emotion like anger and sadness, there is also a strong biological desire -- sexual desire -- which drives all living species to populate our world.

CLAUDIA AGUIRRE

"Your Brain on Love", Huffington Post, February 15, 2016


Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims

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What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


True love is a giant cheese wheel.

DAYNA EVANS

"True Love Is a Giant Cheese Wheel", New York Magazine, December 21, 2015


Here is one of the most beautiful effects of love, its confidence not only in the present, but in the future as well. Cynics may declare that it is only the deceitful way nature uses to make human beings perform her will. To such a view all lovers are indifferent. In their confidence they bind themselves to one another, not for a day only, not even for a lifetime, but for eternity.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Love", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities

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Empires, thrones, kings, dominions, all may be swept away by the force of circumstances, or time; glory, honour, position, wealth, and good name may be gone forever; and love may still be alive, fresh and young. Love born on high soars aloft, and makes its heavenly influence felt in every land and every clime; every nation bows before its power, every caste and every creed own its conquering influence. Love is the foundation of all happiness here and in the life to come, of all earthly joy and heavenly bliss the one spot of garden in the desert of many a life; the spring that is never dried up, and that pours forth its soothing waters o'er many an aching breast. Love can ne'er be bough; no fear can quench it; and absence makes it burn more brightly. Love never dies, or e'er grows old, but year after year it grows in strength and purity, till its golden rays touch the sky, from whence it came.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Love", Short Essays