LOVE QUOTES XXIX

quotations about love

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


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 can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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Love laughs at locksmiths.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

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I want love on demand. Take it away when it hurts, but deliver it when desired, straight to my door.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


Though this faith in love as the one democratic, even universal, form of salvation open to us moderns is the result of a long religious history that saw divine love as the origin of human love and as the model to be imitated, it has paradoxically come into its own because of a decline in religious faith. It has been possible only because, since the end of the eighteenth century, love has increasingly filled the vacuum left by the retreat of Christianity.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


There's always a side of folly with any serving of love. And isn't that what makes it so delicious?

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


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


To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Many of us want love to be wrapped up in an attractive package with all the bells, whistles, hugs and kisses. I know I do. Father God, please let my mate be smart, kind, generous, a dreamer but a doer, mentally stable, financially free, an advocate and a consumer of therapy, and also, can he look like Idris Elba, please, and thanks! But that's not always what love is. Realistically, that's not even what like is!

DANIELLE YOUNG

"OWN's Love Is ____ Aims to Redefine #RelationshipGoals", The Grapevine, June 26, 2018


Even kindergarten love is hard work.

JEFF HICKS

"Kindergarten love flourishes, 50 years later", The Record, September 3, 2018


Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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Love does not seek equals; it creates them.

STENDAHL

The Red and the Black

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Never mingle love and business.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond

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In a love affair, there is usually one person who loves, and the other qui se laisse aimer; it is only in later days, perhaps, when the treasures of love are spent, and the kind hand cold which ministered them, that we remember how tender it was; how soft to soothe; how eager to shield; how ready to support and caress. The ears my no longer hear which would have received our words of thanks so delightedly. Let us hope those fruits of love, though tardy, are yet not all too late; and though we bring our tribute of reverence and gratitude, it may be to a gravestone, there is an acceptance even there for the stricken heart's oblation of fond remorse, contrite memories, and pious tears.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Newcomes


Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

WILLIAM FAULKNER

"Beyond"

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Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

NORA ROBERTS

Blood Brothers

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marring the whole girl.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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