LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

It is not love that he feels for me. It is more like a constant resentment that has become such a habit to him that to have it removed, like an aching tooth, brings him no relief.

PHILIPPA GREGORY

The Boleyn Inheritance


It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy


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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Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand--Love--is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.

SPIKE LEE

Do the Right Thing

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Love covers a multitude of sins.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Love demands that we stop asking "how can my wife/parent/sibling be better" and start asking "how can I make my wife/parent/sibling the happiest in the world?" Love demands death to self.

CHRIS STEFANICK

"Love is Easy Until It's Tested", National Catholic Register, March 19, 2016


Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

BRET HARTE

"Two Men of Sandy Bar"

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Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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


Love is a temple, Love a higher law.

U2

"One", Achtung Baby

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Love is a wound that never heals.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'

MARY BAKER EDDY

"Love that finds solutions", Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 2016


Love is meant to be put into right use full ness. Love is an action. It is an experience. Love is what love does.

MELANIE LUTZ

"Love is Meant to be put Into Right Use Full Ness", BeliefNet, November 2, 2017


Love is not a flow chart.

PAUL COSGROVE

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


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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Love likes not the falling fruit,
Nor the withered tree.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 - 1618) was an English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G. K. CHESTERTON

attributed, Life is a Verb

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Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach
They read with joy, then shut the book.

COVENTRY PATMORE

"The Revelation"

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Love. My golly, it sells diapers, don't it!

DAVID MAMET

Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues

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