LOVE QUOTES XXVI

quotations about love

Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love's fire colors once our neutral form, to blacken to eternal embers.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Love is but a fire that is to be transmitted.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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I want love on demand. Take it away when it hurts, but deliver it when desired, straight to my door.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon


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


To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse


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

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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Though this faith in love as the one democratic, even universal, form of salvation open to us moderns is the result of a long religious history that saw divine love as the origin of human love and as the model to be imitated, it has paradoxically come into its own because of a decline in religious faith. It has been possible only because, since the end of the eighteenth century, love has increasingly filled the vacuum left by the retreat of Christianity.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, it's sunshine.

THE BEATLES

"The Word", Rubber Soul

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Ghost


Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Women Writers Talk


First we love within, then we love the world.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

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Thy love is like deep waters all around--
Warm pulsing waters, in whose brooding sound
The lone wail of my heart is lulled with dreams,
And the far clamour of the world is drowned.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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Love laughs at locksmiths.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Love subdues everything, except the felon heart.

FRENCH PROVERB


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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Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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