LOVE QUOTES VII

quotations about love

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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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Love is limitless and gender fluid.

PRATIMA SHANTAVEERESH

"Love is limitless and gender fluid", New Indian Express, August 25, 2016


Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters to a Young Poet

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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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Life is like a pipe, and love is the fuse.

THEOPHILUS MARZIALS

"Chelsea"


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"


I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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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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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


If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

LILY TOMLIN

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death

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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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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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Love had a thousand shapes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Jan. 19, 1938

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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 the kiss
in the quiet nest
while the leaves are trembling,
mirrored in the water.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The Butterfly's Evil Spell

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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

SEAN O'FAOLAIN

Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966


Unconditional love. That's what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn't he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Reunion

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