LOVE QUOTES X

quotations about love

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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

JOHN DONNE

The Anagram

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters to a Young Poet

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Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

HERMANN HESSE

Peter Camenzind

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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms

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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Tarr

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True love begins in heaven's bower,
Unfolds on earth a perfect flower.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"

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We all crave love. Its universal language unites us as humans. Yet, it also slays us. If you gave people a choice between heartbreak and the Zika virus, we'd all be feverish in bed. Love's pain spreads across our flesh faster than any plague. As soon as you think you're cured, you relapse.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


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


We do not say of Love that he is myopic. We do not say of Love that he is astigmatic. We say quite simply, Love is blind. We might go further and say, Love is deaf. That would be a profound and obvious truth. We might go further still and say, Love is dumb. But that would be a profound and obvious lie. For love is always an extraordinarily fluent talker.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Christmas Garland

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH

Aphorisms

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (September 13, 1830 - March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer noted for her excellent psychological novels. She portrayed life among both the poor and the aristocratic.


When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

TOM ROBBINS

Still Life with Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which was made into a movie in 1993 starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.

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It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness -- and call it love -- true love.

ROBERT FULGHUM

True Love


Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Some meet love's dreams when kissed by death,
And some again in youth,
But all have felt the quickening breath
Of love's undying truth.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Love's Dreams"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).

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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

SEAN O'FAOLAIN

Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966