LOVE QUOTES XL

quotations about love


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Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

LEONID ANDREYEV
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He Who Gets Slapped


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Tags: Leonid Andreyev


One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux

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The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from it's surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs


Happy is love or friendship when returned--
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

BION OF SMYRNA

"Friendship"

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

JOHN DONNE

The Sun Rising

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

JOYCE KILMER

"In Memory"

Tags: Joyce Kilmer


So being in love is like being hooked up to a perpetual dopamine drip, and you get a little hit every time you see the person or touch them or think about them?

SEAN ILLING

"This is what love does to your brain", Vox, April 23, 2018


Expressing love is one of the most beautiful things of life -- for husbands and wives, children and parents, etc. I know that people often claim they prefer to express love by doing things like mowing lawns or making a nice dinner or buying gifts, etc. (There is even a popular book that has you take a questionnaire to find out what your primary way of showing love is so that people will be able to detect when you are showing love, in case you never verbally express it.) To be honest, I don't like promoting the idea that some people are just programmed to express love in certain ways, and not in others. There! I said it. (Sorry if you're a big fan of the book!) I say we don't let a questionnaire or our previous habits and norms limit us. How about we ALL learn to express love -- verbally -- with words!

MARA KOFOED

"The Language of Love", Danny + Mara, December 12, 2012

Tags: love


It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

ROBERT BARR

Over the Border

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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Love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

Tags: James Baldwin


Love is never finished expressing itself.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

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Love's the big hint life can't stop dropping, the biggest beguilement of all.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live


Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

TANITH LEE

Mortal Suns


Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


Love brooks no delay.

ROMAN PROVERB


The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Fusees


Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!

ROBERT BROWNING

"Fra Lippo Lippi"

Tags: Robert Browning


Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

ANNE CARSON

Eros the Bittersweet

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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook