LOVE QUOTES XXX

quotations about love

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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

NORA ROBERTS

Blood Brothers

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Never mingle love and business.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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There were often times when I wondered if there was anyone out there for me at all. I would have lengthy chats with friends as we lamented about love and life, but my end conclusion would be that I, or anyone for that matter, had to remain hopeful. Whether or not there was someone for me, having a negative mindset about love wasn’t going to help me find love. I had to believe that there is a special someone out there for everyone and it was by being positive and being my best self that I would attract that person, whoever he might be.

CELESTINE CHUA

"How I Found My Soulmate, Part 1: My Journey in Love", Personal Excellence

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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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If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


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

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


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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Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Dec. 21, 1939

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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 rule of rules, the key to all mysteries.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Dec. 20, 1810

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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


The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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To love is to will the good of the other.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

ROBERT FROST

The Master Speed

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With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down

SAPPHO

With His Venom

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods