LOVE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about love

Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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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 is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


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

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus at Colonus

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Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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Woman has been trained to stake her all upon love, to dream and plan and wait and focusu life's Multitudinousness upon love's little glamour. And the inquiry is as pertinent now as ever before to ask is such a policy of life propitious to woman's happiness or evolution? Or, if one may not be allowed to take such a pagan view of woman's destiny, to ask is it essential to the happiness or evolution of man?

MARIAN COX

"The Fools of Love", The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays


Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

SANDRA BERNHARD

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda

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Love always has its price, come whence it may.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Miss Harriet"

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Love on his errand bound to go
Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
Where way is none, 't will creep and wind
And eat through Alps its home to find.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Love


Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

WITTER BYNNER

"Rose-Time"

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Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear,
A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,
The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment,
What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love!
For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind,
The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords,
The story without an end that angels throng to hear,
The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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That adoration which a young man gives to a woman whom he feels to be greater and better than himself, is hardly distinguishable from religious feeling. What deep and worthy love is so? whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


There is no passion that more excites us to every thing that is noble and generous than virtuous Love.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

WOODY ALLEN

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy