LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

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Love takes work -- but we're so often slow to treat it as such. We'd rather endure half-hearted arrangements and let things fall apart, chalking it up as a fluke error or poor partner choice. And then we enter the next relationship, sights set high but with nothing to show by way of mindset improvement (other than blind optimism and/or a degree of jadedness.)

KRIS GAGE

"The 2 Biggest Things People Get Wrong About What Love Really Is", Your Tango, August 8, 2018


Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love

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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


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


When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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When they speak of it, this love of theirs, they speak as of a kind of grand mal brought on catastrophically by a bacillus unknown to science but everywhere present in the air about us, like the tuberculosis spore, and to which all but the coldest constitutions are susceptible.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid


Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Garden of Epicurus

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander

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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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All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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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 in the realization that actually, you're just as excited as your toddler to see him walk through that door at the end of each day. And not just because it means now there are more adults on duty to tackle the troops, but because your person is here and he makes you happy.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Maybe love never dies, maybe it hides between our veins that frail our nerves, maybe it is the clog in our arteries that makes our heart ache ... maybe love is like a mysterious stowaway living inside our body that our cells keep chasing but it never gets caught & that chase keeps us alive.

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017


Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

ADRIENNE RICH

Necessities of Life

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