LOVE QUOTES VIII

quotations about love

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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 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


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


Love had a thousand shapes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


Love, how many roads to reach a kiss.

PABLO NERUDA

"Love, How many Roads to Reach a Kiss"

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

COLEMAN HELL

"2 Heads"


When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

A Mirror of Shalott

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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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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

ERICH SEGAL

Love Story

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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms

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Love isn't something we can just turn off like a well-oiled faucet. It drips, keeping us up at night.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


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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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, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers--roses and lilies--which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin,
As sweet as clover-honey in its cell;
Love is the password whereby souls get in
To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


True love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 - 1618) was an English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England.

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Not all men are worthy of love.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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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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Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

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.


Love, amid the other graces of this world, is like a cathedral tower, which begins at the earth and at the first is surrounded by the other parts of the structure. But at length, rising above buttresses, wall and arch, and parapet and pinnacle, it shoots, spire-like, many a foot right into the air, so high that the huge cross on its summit glows like a spark in the morning light, and shines like a star in the evening sky, when the rest of the pile is enveloped in darkness. So love here is surrounded by the other graces, and divides the honors with them; but they will have felt the wrap of night and of darkness, when it will shine, luminous, against the sky of eternity.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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