LOVE QUOTES XXV

quotations about love

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Love is many things and sometimes we are never really sure if it even exists, but all I know is that if you were to show me her soul in a photograph, I wouldn't even ask to see the others.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry

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Singing oh no no
Let it go
Love can take your heart
Throw it out of control
Saying oh no no
Let it go
My love yeah she's a hurricane
I pray through the storm

CREATURE CANYON

"Hurricane"


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


I suppose it may be God's way of telling us to love people while they're here, because tomorrow they may be gone. I guess that's a pretty sorry answer, but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well

Tags: David Baldacci


No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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The loves of men but vary in degrees--
They find no new expression for the flame.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Isaura"


Love is ... knowing that, should it come to it, they would want you to hollow out their corpse and use the carcass as a one-man tent to keep warm. Should it come to it.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Burning with tender love is not really an image for someone who has warmed mercury over a gentle flame. In slowness, gentleness, and hope we have the hidden force of moral perfection and of material transmutation.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Formation of the Scientific Mind

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

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

Tags: Gelett Burgess


Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Ranthorpe


It isn't being happy together ... that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Ministry of Fear


There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


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

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

JAMES W. HALL

Magic City

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Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Looking Glass War

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