LOVE QUOTES XXXV

quotations about love

The pain of love is how slowly it dies.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil

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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Advantages of Having One Leg", On Lying in Bed and Other Essays


When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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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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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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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions

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Why is the measure of love loss?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

SUSANNA MOORE

The Big Girls

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In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

DEPECHE MODE

"The Love Thieves", Ultra

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There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

BIBLE

Proverbs 10:12

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Love is the centre and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense
For all the ills that have been, or may be.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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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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You can't make me love you.

NEIL GAIMAN

Coraline

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Love! Love until the night collapses!

PABLO NERUDA

"Come Up with Me"

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