LOVE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about love

It is as absurd to deny that it is possible for a man always to love the same woman, as it would be to affirm that some famous musician needed several violins in order to execute a piece of music or compose a charming melody.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance, Dance, Dance

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A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Love"

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".

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What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare

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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain

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Oh love's sweet enchantment is common,
It rules the world everywhere;
'Tis the rose in the bosom of woman,
The bouquet that man loves to wear;
'Tis the Spirit that lightens his labour,
Or whether on land or on sea;
'Tis the charm of the pipe and the tabor,
And as dear to the slave as the free!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Love"


Such as are excited by the gentler influence of Love assume more of affection in their looks, sink their voice into greater softness, and manifest in their gestures greater nobleness of soul.

XENOPHON

The Banquet

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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Light in August


Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

TIM LEBBON

Unnatural Selection

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If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

THICH NHAT HANH

O Magazine, Feb. 2007


To men of a certain type
The suspicion that they are incapable of loving
Is as disturbing to their self-esteem
As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party

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Be the love that the world needs to survive, to thrive, and to continue make being alive more worthwhile.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


So being in love is like being hooked up to a perpetual dopamine drip, and you get a little hit every time you see the person or touch them or think about them?

SEAN ILLING

"This is what love does to your brain", Vox, April 23, 2018


Love is blind and in hindsight is twenty-twenty.

PETER FACINELLI

"Peter Facinelli recalls divorce from '90210' star Jennie Garth", FOX News, October 19, 2017


Love is an amazing magnet.

NICHOLSON BAKER

Traveling Sprinkler

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Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

"Mozart's 'Figaro' Flies Thru Detroit!", America Jr., November 14, 2017


Our love is simply about us being together, hand in hand, for the small, daily joys in the world around us.

LINDSAY DETWILER

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


Love is a confidence trick, that's all. It's Nature's way of suckering a mammal with a brain and a long, vulnerable gestation period into reproducing. Humans can think, so ordinary animal-grade maternal instinct wouldn't be enough to make human women go through all that, not if they stopped and thought about what's involved. So you have love. It's a substitute for rational thought.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil