LOVE QUOTES LV

quotations about love

Love is ... seeing your bodies become desiccated trees as if battered by many winds.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

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It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

PABLO NERUDA

"Get Used to Seeing the Shadow Behind Me"

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I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"O Do Not Love Too Long", In the Seven Woods

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And love is part and union in itself
Of all that is in nature, brilliant, pure--
Of all in feeling, sacred and sublime.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Lake"

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Whatever our religious practice, love has no religion. On the contrary love is a religion of its own.

SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI

"Bajirao Mastani is a tribute to Mughal-e-Azam: Sanjay Leela Bhansali", Firstpost, December 22, 2015


This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

MARCEL PROUST

Within a Budding Grove


The wine of Love can be obtained by none,
Save Him who trod the winepress all alone.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

"Love"


The clearer and happier you feel inside, the more joyous and loving your outer world becomes because love attracts love.

JUDY HALL

Love Crystals

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No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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My love is hopeless! I know it. But it will feed me to my dying day.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol


Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

JOHN DONNE

The Sun Rising

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Love prepares us for martyrdom.

PHILIP KOSLOSKI

"Love is What Prepares Us For Every Form of Martyrdom", National Catholic Register, March 22, 2016


Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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Love is blind, but not the neighbors.

MEXICAN PROVERB


Love is a jeering mime.

KENNETH RAND

"Ante Lucem"

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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Words of Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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