LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

love quote

Love! Love until the night collapses!

PABLO NERUDA

"Come Up with Me"

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No love without bread and wine.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love laughs at locksmiths.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Love subdues everything, except the felon heart.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.

YIDDISH PROVERB


Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number
Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only.
Only to love and to be loved again.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"

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Love gives impetus and fruitfulness to life and to the journey of faith: without love, both life and faith remain sterile.

POPE FRANCIS

Vatican Radio, October 29, 2017


Love takes work -- but we're so often slow to treat it as such. We'd rather endure half-hearted arrangements and let things fall apart, chalking it up as a fluke error or poor partner choice. And then we enter the next relationship, sights set high but with nothing to show by way of mindset improvement (other than blind optimism and/or a degree of jadedness.)

KRIS GAGE

"The 2 Biggest Things People Get Wrong About What Love Really Is", Your Tango, August 8, 2018


With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down

SAPPHO

With His Venom

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


I suppose it may be God's way of telling us to love people while they're here, because tomorrow they may be gone. I guess that's a pretty sorry answer, but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well

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Love is the power that can anchor and transform both our conflicts and our compromises, as we take firm and steady steps toward big and worthy goals. Although we've banished talk of love from our public discourse, we need to place it back where it belongs -- front and center, right alongside high standards and expectations.

KEN WAGNER

"Back to School -- New Statewide Offerings Include Love", Westerly Sun, August 31, 2016


Christians see love as a vertical (love for God) and horizontal (love for fellow human beings). Just as the vertical and horizontal wood or metal come together to form a cross, so also love for God and love for fellow human beings define the whole essence of love.

FRANCIS EWHERIDO

"Love is a cross", Vanguard, November 11, 2017


God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love.

VICTOR HUGO

Toilers of the Sea

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

ROALD DAHL

"The Heart of a Mouse", The Witches

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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy


True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

WASHINGTON IRVING

"The Wife", The Sketch Book


There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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