LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

love quote

The poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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Love is in the fresh bottle of cold water that magically appears by your bedside lamp every night, because he knows you get thirsty when you get up to nurse the baby every two hours.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


There is no love that is not an echo.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


I'll tell you ... what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter -- as I did!

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations

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If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

KURT VONNEGUT

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons


What amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy--and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

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Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion

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Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

The Reed of God

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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters


Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern

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Love is a king who reigns without laws.

SPANISH PROVERB


What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life.
In just a glance, down here on magic street,
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic

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Love is... carefully curated ignorance.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016