LOVE QUOTES XLVII

quotations about love

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization


The flame of anger, bright and brief,
Sharpens the barb of Love.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Tell Me Not Things Past all Belief

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Love is a concept none of us really understand but yet we try to define it in the small square of accepted norms. When two people love each other and want to be together in more than one way, gender, society, age, caste, creed stops mattering.

SHRIYA JOSHI

"This Short Film About Freedom To Love Is Our Gift To You On Independence Day", Storypick, August 12, 2016


I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry


There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Poems from Blake's Notebook


It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

ROBERT BARR

Over the Border

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Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade. And when this enchantment has fled, then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love.

T. S. ARTHUR

"The Evening Before Marriage", Orange Blossoms

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What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Love, however doomed, had the capacity to attach buoys to the soul.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death

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Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

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When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Lady Midnight


People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

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I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"O Do Not Love Too Long", In the Seven Woods

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Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune

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I've never had my heart broken ... It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all ... My lover and my best friend and my partner has been my work. But I certainly would in life have wanted to know--would like to know--what it was like to have a real partner.

SALLY FIELD

Good Housekeeping, Mar. 2009

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The only way to experience love is to buy it and have it installed in your head. But, like most technology, its shelf-life is limited.

GERMAIN LUSSIER

"Love Is a Gadget in This Upcoming Scott Eastwood Film", Gizmodo, August 15, 2016


All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

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