LOVE QUOTES XII

quotations about love

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Maybe the act of love came too late. As a career move, I should have lost my burdensome virginity at thirteen or fourteen, when there would have been no question of lasting attachment and no desire for one. As it was, I shook when I removed my clothes and I cried after it was done, not out of pain or disappointment but out of an up-rush of muddling emotion which twenty-four hours later I was ready to call love.

HILARY MANTEL

An Experiment in Love

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Wind, Sand and Stars

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Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

TIM LEBBON

Face

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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


It is not the healthy, the confident, the proud, the joyous, the happy, that one must love -- they have no need of one's love! Arrogant and indifferent, they accept love only as homage that is theirs to command, as their due. The devotion of another is to them a mere embellishment, an ornament for the hair, a bracelet on the arm, not the whole meaning and bliss of their lives. Only those with whom life has dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love. He who devotes his life to them atones to them for what life has taken from them. They alone know how to love and be loved as one should love -- gratefully and humbly.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

ANDRE MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov

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Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

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.


Love is the poetry of the senses. It has the destiny of all that which is great in man and of all that which proceeds from his thought. Either it is sublime, or it is not. When once it exists, it exists forever and goes on always increasing. This is the love which the ancients made the child of heaven and earth.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Love: noun. The force that allows us to overcome our seemingly irreconcilable differences and empowers us to experience the peace of one-ness.

BURT GERSHATER

"Inner Heroes", Arizona Daily Sun, August 20, 2018


Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, no one better deserves our attention, than that love, which arises betwixt the sexes, as well on account of its force and violence, as those curious principles of philosophy, for which it affords us an uncontestable argument. It is plain, that this affection, in its most natural state, is derived from the conjunction of three different impressions or passions, viz. The pleasing sensation arising from beauty; the bodily appetite for generation; and a generous kindness or good-will. The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. The question is how the bodily appetite is excited by it.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love Betwixt the Sexes", A Treatise of Human Nature

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I love the one who punishes me well.

ANNE RICE

Beauty's Release

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Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

PABLO NERUDA

"The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light"


To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.

CHRIS SEIDMAN

Little Buddy

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Love is what helps mothers lift cars off kids, it's what helps people in earthquakes lift boulders off people who are crushed.

BEN HERRING

"Former New Zealand star Ben Herring believes love is the best language when trying to motivate players", Daily Mail, September 1, 2016


Love is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Communism"

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There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

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Love is the master of our lives,
And, e'en though happy subjects we,
We're governed by his scepter strong
Through time and through eternity.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Melody"

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Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit