LOVE QUOTES VII

quotations about love

love quote

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

COLEMAN HELL

"2 Heads"


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 is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness

U2

"Love Is Blindness", Achtung Baby

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Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

DAN SIMMONS

Olympos

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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians


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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But now I know that there is no killing
A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death.
There is no hushing, there is no stilling
That which is part of your life and breath.
You may bury it deep, and leave behind you
The land, the people that knew your slain;
It will push the sods from its grave, and find you
On wastes of water or desert plain.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"From the Grave"


Deep Love is slow of speech and void of art;
Silence and timid tears reveal his heart.
But shallow Love is ever eloquent
To mouth his meagre passion -- and depart.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue"

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Every little thing wants to be loved.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Secret Life of Bees

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Sandman, #65

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

NORA ROBERTS

Blue Smoke

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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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Like thunder needs rain
Like a preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a sweet stain
Need your love
I need your love

U2

"Hawkmoon 269", Rattle and Hum


Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

JOHN DONNE

The Anagram

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Love had a thousand shapes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


Love is the garden of the young.

HERBERT KRETZMER

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


Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

HERMANN HESSE

Peter Camenzind

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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

SEAN O'FAOLAIN

Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966


Love's never a fair trade.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

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The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath