LOVE QUOTES XXXV

quotations about love

A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked

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He gives a ripe apple for an apple-blossom that changes an old love for a new.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Offshore Pirate"

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


Love may turn to indifference with possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance


That adoration which a young man gives to a woman whom he feels to be greater and better than himself, is hardly distinguishable from religious feeling. What deep and worthy love is so? whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

WITTER BYNNER

"Rose-Time"

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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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O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W. B. YEATS

"Brown Penny"

Tags: William Butler Yeats


Love abounds in all things,
excels from the depths to beyond the stars,
is lovingly disposed to all things.
She has given the king on high
the kiss of peace.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

"Caritas abundat"