LOVE QUOTES XXXV

quotations about love

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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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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There is no balm of Gilead,
No salve, no soothing ointment
To stay the pain of one who's had
In love a disappointment--
Unless it be that healing lotion
Of fixing on a new devotion.

RICHARD ARMOUR

"Pastures New"

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Love is a wound that never heals.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

SWEDISH PROVERB

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Love is not a flow chart.

PAUL COSGROVE

"Love is not a flow chart", December 22, 2015


Love was a country he knew nothing about.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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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 is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


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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In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Forget about everything else. Fall in love and stay there.

AMISHA SETHI

"Love is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016


Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

TANITH LEE

Delirium's Mistress

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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


Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters


The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


Love is basically for teenagers, and when it comes to real life for grown-ups, you're far better off with someone who's moderately pleased to see you when you're around, but leaves you in peace when you've got things to do.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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