LOVE QUOTES VI

quotations about love

Ursula K. Le Guin quote

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


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


It's logical that everyone wants to be in love. Then, for a while, life isn't taken up with the tedium of thinking everything through, talking things through. It's nice to be able to notice small objects or small moments, to point them out and to have someone eager to pretend that there's more to them than it seems.

ANN BEATTIE

"Moving Water", The New Yorker Stories

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Love will have its day.

U2

"North and South of the River", Staring at the Sun

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

PLATO

The Republic

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The world has little to bestow
Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Delia

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

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

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Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


When love is reached through suffering ... it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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Near even a candle, the visible heat.
So it is with a person in love.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"The Visible Heat"


We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


He who has loved often ... has loved never.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Last Days of Pompeii


Love ain't nothing but a monster with two heads.

COLEMAN HELL

"2 Heads"


Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no control over it. But then, that is not so surprising, since love is basically chemistry.

JIM AL-KHALILI

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


You can't love people into who you need them to be.

JULIE MITCHELL

"Love is not written in the stars", Corsicana Daily Sun, November 6, 2017


It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

PAT BENATAR

"Hell is for Children"

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Sex is the joining of two bodies; love is the joining of two souls.

GARY D. CHAPMAN

Making Love

Gary Demonte Chapman (born January 10, 1938) is an American author, radio talk show host, and the senior associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is most noted for his book The Five Love Languages, which outlines five general ways that romantic partners express and experience love.

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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians