LOVE QUOTES XXVII

quotations about love

Love is the endless verb; a relationship encompassing the ultimate in holiness. Love does conquer death because in its moment lived it's eternal in nature. Love gives us our purpose, and is our ultimate memorial.

MITCHELL HURVITZ

"Perspectives: Love is tangible presence of God", Greenwich Time, October 27, 2017


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


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Love is the rule of rules, the key to all mysteries.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita

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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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Love may turn to indifference with possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G. K. CHESTERTON

attributed, Life is a Verb

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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


Love's fire colors once our neutral form, to blacken to eternal embers.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Love's language everywhere is known.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


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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Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Treatise on the Love of God


Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

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Maybe love never dies, maybe it hides between our veins that frail our nerves, maybe it is the clog in our arteries that makes our heart ache ... maybe love is like a mysterious stowaway living inside our body that our cells keep chasing but it never gets caught & that chase keeps us alive.

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Tamerlane"

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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus at Colonus

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Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017