LOVE QUOTES V

quotations about love

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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, Sep. 30, 1779

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Love is ... a cloak of suburban guilt.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Sometimes it seems ... as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

One Art: Letters

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This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through oblivion

DEPECHE MODE

"I Feel You", Songs of Faith and Devotion


As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Pendennis


A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love

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Love is an open door to a possibility of a joyful dance, getting your needs met and fulfilling someone else's needs, trusting you will be safe.

TERRELL WASHINGTON

"To Love is to Trust", The Good Men Project, August 18, 2016


'Know that Love is a careless child,
And forgets promises past;
He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
And in faith never fast.
'His desire is a dureless content,
And a trustless joy;
He is won with a world of despair,
And is lost with a toy.

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.


Love is the wild card of existence.

RITA MAE BROWN

In Her Day


I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Paris Review, spring 1977

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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

A Bit O' Love


Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

JOHN DRYDEN

Tyrannic Love


[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You

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The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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Love is ... the by-product of living in a decent flat.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Some meet love's dreams when kissed by death,
And some again in youth,
But all have felt the quickening breath
Of love's undying truth.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Love's Dreams"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss,
Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures;
But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Revenge

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