LOVE QUOTES XIII

quotations about love

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Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

PABLO NERUDA

"The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light"


There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

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Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Never Give All the Heart", In the Seven Woods

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There's nothing deader than a dead love.

LEONA HELMSLEY

Playboy, Nov. 1990

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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God


If thou love thine equal, it is no conquest; if thy superior, thou shalt be envied; if thine inferior, laughed at. If one that is beautiful, her colour will change before thou get thy desire; if one that is wise, she will overreach thee so far that thou shalt never touch her; if virtuous, she will eschew such fond affection; if deformed, she is not worthy of any affection; if she be rich, she needeth thee not; if poor, thou needest not her. If old, why shouldst thou love her; if young, why should she love thee?

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


If I fell in love with you
Would you promise to be true
And help me understand
'Cause I've been in love before
And I found that love was more
Than just holding hands

THE BEATLES

"If I Fell", A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.


Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.

JOHN DONNE

The Ecstasy

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Love's tendrils round the heart doth twine,
As round the oak doth cling the vine.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


Love is the master of our lives,
And, e'en though happy subjects we,
We're governed by his scepter strong
Through time and through eternity.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Melody"

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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

ANDRE MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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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 unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death

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If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

EDWARD HOAGLAND

Balancing Acts

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

MAYA ANGELOU

attributed, The Power of Hope

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If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Day Watch


Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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The problem with love these days is that society has taught the human race to stare at people with their eyes rather than their souls.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry


In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

EMILE ZOLA

L'Argent

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