LOVE QUOTES XXXV

quotations about love

The pain of love is how slowly it dies.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil

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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


In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


Love is love's reward.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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Being in love is an elaborate state of anticipation for the continual exchanging of certain kinds of gifts. The gifts can range from a glance to the offering of the entire self. But the gifts must be gifts: they cannot be claimed. One has no rights as a lover--except the right to anticipate what the other wishes to give.

JOHN BERGER

G. John Berger

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If you have a history of bad relationships, what feels natural to you is probably NOT the best thing for you. This is counter-intuitive, but the things that feel good or exciting to you may actually be red flags that you're with someone who is fulfilling an old pattern of yours. Ironically, the kind of love that you deserve is going to feel uncomfortable at first, because it will be something NEW and off your neural map, so to speak. It may not be as exciting, and you'll likely not even be as initially attracted to the person who you'll ultimately create a strong relationship with, but true love is a marathon, not a sprint.

JENEV CADDELL

"The Part You're Missing About Manifesting True Love", Huffington Post, December 30, 2015


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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Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Love was a country he knew nothing about.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.

IRISH PROVERB

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To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love!

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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