LOVE QUOTES XLV

quotations about love

If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

THICH NHAT HANH

O Magazine, Feb. 2007


Until Obi met Clara on board the cargo boat Sasa he had thought of love as another grossly over-rated European invention.

CHINUA ACHEBE

No Longer at Ease

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.

ZSA ZSA GABOR

Newsweek, Mar. 28, 1960

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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


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

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Few people love with the violence they hate.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims

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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


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


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our perplexity when alone.

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.


For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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 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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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


In love two individuals share the same interest--each being interested only in the other's welfare.

B. V. TRIPURARI

"Love Is the Answer", Huffington Post, March 29, 2016


Be the love that the world needs to survive, to thrive, and to continue make being alive more worthwhile.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

How to Write


You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.

ANITA BROOKNER

Hotel du Lac