LOVE QUOTES XLVIII

quotations about love

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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"


Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Ranthorpe


Love makes the world go round.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune

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A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Wit and Wisdom of E. Bulwer-Lytton


Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth

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Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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True love is a giant cheese wheel.

DAYNA EVANS

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


It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.

DANISH PROVERB


Love's plant must be watered with tears.

DANISH PROVERB


The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from it's surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs


Love's a dog in a manger.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".


Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Search for Love"

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".


The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Fusees


I've heard it called a Cinderella story, I've heard it called magic. But it's not magic, it's love. And when love is true from the heart, nothing magic about it.

BILL MAHON

"Love From the Ashes", KWTX, November 13, 2017


There are moments of passion and joy, but most of this love is enduring the long stretches of dealing with not-so-thrilling stuff because one has to do so and no one else will. Moreover, one cannot imagine doing otherwise. If that sounds like your marriage, congratulations.

ANDY SENIOR

"Love and the Single Factotum", Syncopated Times, September 26, 2018


Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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