LOVE QUOTES VI

quotations about love

Ursula K. Le Guin quote

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


Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

TONI MORRISON

Paradise


Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

FRANK LAWLIS

Mending the Broken Bond


Some people, right away, do know each other deeply. Love gives them insight into each other. Love makes them pledge themselves to each other. Love makes them inventive. Yes, it also makes them ridiculous. But that's just another of love's glories. It makes being ridiculous permissible.

JAMES KUZNER

"Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?", The Conversation, August 30, 2018

James Kuzner is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. With a specialty in early modern literature, his research tends to focus on the relationship between literature, selfhood, and political imagination.


To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party and is remembered for his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.

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True love is like a coin, changeless and pure,
Bright from the mint of virtuous affection,
Whose solid worth lies in its gold secure
Stamped with the soul's reflection;
Though Time may mar with rude and hasty hands
Its brilliancy and beauty,
Its gold unspoiled beneath the surface stands
Alloyed with common duty.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Love's Counterfeits"

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PIGLET: How do you spell 'love'?
POOH: You don't spell it, you feel it.

A. A. MILNE

Winnie the Pooh

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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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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


Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy.

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda

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Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Blue Moon


Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart

SAPPHO

Without Warning

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision--a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

TERESA MEDEIROS

The Vampire Who Loved Me

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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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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


Love is the garden of the young.

HERBERT KRETZMER

"A Heart Full of Love (Reprise)", Les Miserables