LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

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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


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

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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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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The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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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 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


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


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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Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew


Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why

SHERYL CROW

"Always on Your Side"


Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love is anterior to Life"

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Love is a king who reigns without laws.

SPANISH PROVERB


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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Love is one of the last things that gives meaning and magic in a world where god is dead and nothing matters anymore.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


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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There is no love that is not an echo.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


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

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


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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