LOVE QUOTES XXXIV

quotations about love

And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

AMY HEMPEL

"The Dog of the Marriage"

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There is no balm of Gilead,
No salve, no soothing ointment
To stay the pain of one who's had
In love a disappointment--
Unless it be that healing lotion
Of fixing on a new devotion.

RICHARD ARMOUR

"Pastures New"

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Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love is a wound that never heals.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

SWEDISH PROVERB

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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

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Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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Love is not a flow chart.

PAUL COSGROVE

"Love is not a flow chart", December 22, 2015


Love was a country he knew nothing about.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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And you tempt me into your House of Love--
I, who have come from far
Through wintry forest and homeless heath,
Friend of the wind and star?
Ah, I fear the warmth of the ingleside
And the depths of your dear caress
Will make me forget what I learned out there
In the stubble and loneliness!

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"The Moor-child", Blue Smoke

Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) was an American poet and author. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her last collection of poetry, Dreamers on Horseback, in 1931.

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Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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Love is kind of like a unicorn -- elusive and very hard to explain.

OLIVIA TRUFFAUT-WONG

"11 Movies To Watch When You're In Love To Get You Through The Good, The Bad, & All The Feels", Bustle, December 2015


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


For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda

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In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Forget about everything else. Fall in love and stay there.

AMISHA SETHI

"Love is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016