LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

love quote

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

KENNETH RAND

"The Old Lovers"

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Love is an alliance of friendship and of lust; if the former predominate, it is a passion exalted and refined, but if the latter, gross and sensual.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.


I've read more than a hundred books
Seeing love mentioned many thousand times
But despite all the places I've looked
It's still no clearer
I'm still no nearer
The meaning of love

DEPECHE MODE

"The Meaning of Love", A Broken Frame


Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that hapiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilac opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms


O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Tamerlane"

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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Autobiography of Values

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Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track.
The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

PABLO NERUDA

Morning XII

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When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

TIMOTHY KELLER

The Reason for God


A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

Islanders and the Fisher of Men

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Our love is a harsh cord
that binds us wounding us
and if we want
to leave our wound,
to separate,
it makes a new knot for us and condemns us
to drain our blood and burn together.

PABLO NERUDA

"The Furies"


Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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Love defies all calculation. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

attributed, Proust Was a Neuroscientist


With the secularization of the Western world, we are turning to romantic love to give us what we once looked for in the realm of the divine. Transcendence, meaning, wholeness, and ecstasy.

ESTHER PEREL

"A top couples' therapist says our 'religion of romantic love' is making relationships harder", Business Insider, November 10, 2017


Love is not some mushy feeling for your parents that you are born with, or a romanticized sexuality you learn from magazines. It is action. If you know what love is you can never be in doubt about whether someone loves you or you love someone.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Fury of Rachel Monette

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Love's tongue is in the eyes.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

Piscatory Eclogues

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Kafka on the Shore

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