LOVE QUOTES XLI

quotations about love

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Cannot we all learn something from love, even those of us who may not be professed lovers? The teachers of the new cults, of mental and moral healing, go so far as to say that all they know has been learned through love. The foundation of their philosophy is love, and the inspiration, too. In it they declare there is the only health. In its enemy, hate, they find the only disease, the only cause of death. Surely there are many expressions of love besides the one that has been allowed to usurp the word. The love of the youth for the maiden and of the maiden for the youth is only one form of the love that radiates through the whole world, the sunshine of life from which we all derive our health and our energy.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Love", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


Love is a negative form of hatred.

ROGER ZELAZNY

This Immortal

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Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

HELEN ROWLAND

Inter-Collegiate World


For me, however, if I understand the concept, to love properly and in earnest one would have to do it anonymously, or at least in an undeclared fashion, so as not to seem to ask anything in return, since asking and getting are the antithesis of love--if, as I say, I have the concept aright, which from all I have said and all that has been said to me so far it appears I do not. It is very puzzling. Love, the kind that I mean, would require a superhuman capacity for sacrifice and self-denial, such as a saint possesses, or a god, and saints are monsters, as we know, and as for the gods--well.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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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

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For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure's inventions are soon exhausted.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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Love also looks like me coming downstairs to a full pot of coffee every morning because coffee is love. Love looks like all the lunches being made already so I can enjoy that aforementioned cup of coffee.

AMY BETTERS-MIDTVEDT

"Wife Writes Note About What Love Is Like When Instagram Isn't Looking", Huffington Post, November 1, 2017


True love is a giant cheese wheel.

DAYNA EVANS

"True Love Is a Giant Cheese Wheel", New York Magazine, December 21, 2015


All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

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Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of country, of God, of an idea, love is fundamentally an intense devotion to this notion that something is bigger than us. Love is ultimately larger than friendship, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, or joy. Indeed, as the Four Wise Ones once said, it may be all you need.

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

The World in Six Songs

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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

ST. AUGUSTINE

On the Mystical Body of Christ

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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"Tandy", Winesburg, Ohio


It's easy to live when you're in love.

LEO ROBIN

"Easy Living"


I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

SARAH DESSEN

This Lullaby


Love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love, with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromise their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

NORA ROBERTS

Sweet Revenge


Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

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The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

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