LOVE QUOTES LVI

quotations about love

Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched huts.

JAPANESE PROVERB


The end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Powerbook


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 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


What is the science at work behind falling out of love? How does the skin of a person you made love to once start feeling strange even to touch? How do feelings that you once invested your every living breath in while expressing just get reduced to mere memories of words? How does the joy of a heart overflowing with love suddenly transforms into an empty cauldron with echoes of pain? Is love a mirage?

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


A man is only as good as what he loves.

SAUL BELLOW

Seize the Day

Tags: Saul Bellow


Love ... like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

Tags: Katharine Hepburn


You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel

U2

"A Man and a Woman", How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb


Looking back, I should have known better than to accompany Hugh to a love story. Such movies are always a danger, as unlike battling aliens or going undercover to track a serial killer, falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced at some point in their lives. The theme is universal and encourages the viewer to make a number of unhealthy comparisons, ultimately raising the question "Why can't our lives be like that?" It's a box best left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.

DAVID SEDARIS

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim


Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness

U2

"Love Is Blindness", Achtung Baby


We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

MAYA ANGELOU

A Brave and Startling Truth


Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep;
And though she saw all heaven in flower above,
She would not love.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

"A Leave-taking"

Tags: Algernon Charles Swinburne


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

PABLO NERUDA

"Get Used to Seeing the Shadow Behind Me"

Tags: Pablo Neruda


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's love that makes the world go round!

W. S. GILBERT

Iolanthe

Tags: W. S. Gilbert