LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

love quote

As your lover describes you, so you are.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry

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Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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Love is basically for teenagers, and when it comes to real life for grown-ups, you're far better off with someone who's moderately pleased to see you when you're around, but leaves you in peace when you've got things to do.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


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

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse


There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.

MAUD LINDSAY

"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories

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You can't make me love you.

NEIL GAIMAN

Coraline

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Love! Love until the night collapses!

PABLO NERUDA

"Come Up with Me"

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If with love thy heart has burned;
If thy love is unreturned;
Hide thy grief within thy breast,
Though it tear thee unexpressed;
For when love has once departed
From the eyes of the false-hearted,
And one by one has torn off quite
The bandages of purple light;
Though thou wert the loveliest
Form the soul had ever dressed,
Thou shalt seem, in each reply,
A vixen to his altered eye;
Thy softest pleadings seem too bold,
Thy praying lute will seem to scold;
Though thou kept the straightest road,
Yet thou errest far and broad.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

To Rhea


Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

ROBERT BELL

The Ladder of Gold

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Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing:
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.

SAMUEL DANIEL

Hymen's Triumph

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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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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


Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians


There is no evil angel but Love.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

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O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

WOODY ALLEN

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy


I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

ADRIENNE RICH

Necessities of Life

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