LOVE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about love

The sweetness of human love is to be compared, therefore, to the sweetness of a flower, whose glowing colors and voluptuous fragrance are intended by Nature to attract the winged insects, whose visits are necessary for the fertilization of the seed. The color fades, the flower falls, the perfume vanishes, death soon follows after; but Nature is not mocked.

ARTHUR FOLEY WINNINGTON-INGRAM

"Love's Nature", Thoughts on Love and Death


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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Love is to be the lodestar of our lives and, if blessed with the capacity to exercise it, we can aspire to imitate God.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


Love Bertrand, love his dog.

FRENCH PROVERB


The Maker has linked together the whole race of man with this chain of love. I like to think that there is no man but has had kindly feelings for some other, and he for his neighbour, untiwl we bind together the whole family of Adam. Nor does it end here. It joins heaven and earth together. For my friend or my child of past days is still my friend or my child to me here, or in the home prepared for us by the Father of all. If identity survives the grave, as our faith tells us, is it not a consolation to think that there may be one or two souls among the purified and just, whose affection watches us invisible, and follows the poor sinner on earth?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Cornhill to Cairo


Nothing is so strange when one is in love ... as the complete indifference of other people.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Mrs. Dalloway


When does love cease? When one begins to love anew.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

The Law of Love

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Love is the most common miracle.

JOHN GREEN

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Oh! For love, for the painfully nourished, tenderly cherished, sweet frenzies illusion, the known-illusion within the globule of sentimental cynicism. For romantic love, then, I sacrifice honor, decency, human kindness, charity, honesty, friendship and the future -- all, (ah!) for love!

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

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I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

SARAH DESSEN

This Lullaby


Love brooks no delay.

ROMAN PROVERB


If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Valley of Horses

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Ah, my friends, Love, like a froward boy, with his hands full of sugar-plums, still cries for more.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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I am a bit different than most, in that I have a very strict definition of love. Most people view love as a feeling, or a thing. Most of the definitions that people associate with love really define infatuation. For me, love is not a feeling or a thing; it is not a noun or an adjective. Romantic love is a verb. It is the act of mutual nurture.

BRADY CRAIN

"Altitude Sickness: Romantic love is a verb", Mountain Times, March 9, 2016


Love released from bond, and unburdened of its fetters, is love no longer.

THOMAS BURKE

A Love Lesson

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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

TANITH LEE

Metallic Love

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Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

TANITH LEE

Mortal Suns