LOVE QUOTES XXV

quotations about love

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Love is God's dream for man.

POPE FRANCIS

Vatican Radio, October 29, 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


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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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


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


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

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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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


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

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


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


To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.

ANONYMOUS


Love begins at home.

GERMAN PROVERB


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

IRISH PROVERB

Tags: Irish proverbs


It is the terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in a play not with a woman of the outside world but with a doll inside our brain -- the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one we shall ever possess -- whom the arbitrary power of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the Balbec of my dreams had been from the real Balbec; an artificial creation which by degrees, and to our own hurt, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way

Tags: Marcel Proust


If with love thy heart has burned;
If thy love is unreturned;
Hide thy grief within thy breast,
Though it tear thee unexpressed;
For when love has once departed
From the eyes of the false-hearted,
And one by one has torn off quite
The bandages of purple light;
Though thou wert the loveliest
Form the soul had ever dressed,
Thou shalt seem, in each reply,
A vixen to his altered eye;
Thy softest pleadings seem too bold,
Thy praying lute will seem to scold;
Though thou kept the straightest road,
Yet thou errest far and broad.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

To Rhea


Call us what you will, we are made such by love.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization

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

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Garden of Epicurus

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No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

SOPHOCLES

Antigone


Love ... must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning -- a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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Love is but a fire that is to be transmitted.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Tags: Gaston Bachelard