LOVE QUOTES XXX

quotations about love

Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

AMY HEMPEL

"The Dog of the Marriage"

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Dec. 21, 1939

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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


Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

WITTER BYNNER

"Rose-Time"

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Love does not seek equals; it creates them.

STENDAHL

The Red and the Black

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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters

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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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Love is ... letting them flirt with the person next door, because you understand they need to feel like anything is possible.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon


There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


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


Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love

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It is certain there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated. Human nature would sink into deadness and lethargy, if not quickened with some active principle; and as for all others, whether ambition, envy, or avarice, which are apt to possess the mind in the absence of this passion, it must be allowed that they have greater pains, without the compensation of such exquisite pleasures as those we find in love.

JOSEPH ADDISON

"The Passion of Love", Essays Moral and Humorous

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