LOVE QUOTES VI

quotations about love

Ursula K. Le Guin quote

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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond

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

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex

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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--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Love will have its day.

U2

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

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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


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 ... 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 holds everything together with a girdle of barbed wire encased in a sheath of pink cotton wool.

TIM LOTT

"Love is ... a torment and a joy. And it's not for softies", The Guardian, July 22, 2016

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a novelist, travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.


Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

JOHN DONNE

The Anagram

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

VICTOR HUGO

Les Miserables

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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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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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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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


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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We do not say of Love that he is myopic. We do not say of Love that he is astigmatic. We say quite simply, Love is blind. We might go further and say, Love is deaf. That would be a profound and obvious truth. We might go further still and say, Love is dumb. But that would be a profound and obvious lie. For love is always an extraordinarily fluent talker.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Christmas Garland

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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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