LOVE QUOTES XVII

quotations about love

love quote

Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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Love kills.

EDNA BUCHANAN

Love Kills

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The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like costumes grandsires wore.

EMILY DICKINSON

"We Outgrow Love Like Other Things"

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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


Some things you can feel coming. You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. When you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

UMBERTO ECO

Foucault's Pendulum

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The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Love is not some mushy feeling for your parents that you are born with, or a romanticized sexuality you learn from magazines. It is action. If you know what love is you can never be in doubt about whether someone loves you or you love someone.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Fury of Rachel Monette

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between, to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Essay on Christianity"


Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of trees. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

American Note-Books, Mar. 9, 1853

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Becoming addicted to love isn't uncommon. The chemicals released during that first phase are the same or similar to those released when consuming cocaine or drinking alcohol. And for some people the desire to feel that way all the time can be hard to resist.

KURT SMITH

"Yes, it is Possible to Be Addicted to Love", beliefnet, August 8, 2018


Love is in the fresh bottle of cold water that magically appears by your bedside lamp every night, because he knows you get thirsty when you get up to nurse the baby every two hours.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Love is easy until it's tested. When it requires sacrifice, it's proven. It's easy to love people until we meet ... those people. It's easy to love our enemies until we actually have enemies.

CHRIS STEFANICK

"Love is Easy Until It's Tested", National Catholic Register, March 19, 2016


Love's tongue is in the eyes.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

Piscatory Eclogues

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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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The poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

STEPHEN KING

The Drawing of the Three


Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

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