LOVE QUOTES XLV

quotations about love

You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


Be worthy love, and love will come.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

attributed, Evan Esar's 20,000 Quips & Quotes


Love is a spiritual force, the deep aliveness that is the essence of being before we think about it.

JUDITH SEDGEMAN

Love Is Not What You Think


Love knoweth no laws.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues

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Love is my religion--I could die for that.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Fanny Brawne, Oct. 13, 1819

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Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.

JOHN KEATS

"Lamia"


Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Words of Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

"Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart", Glamour


We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our perplexity when alone.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


Love is what you've been through with somebody.

JAMES THURBER

Life Magazine, Mar. 14, 1960

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Love must be the same in all worlds.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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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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When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter

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Love makes the world go round.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.

ENGLISH PROVERB


He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows
All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

ELSA BARKER

He Who Knows Love

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I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

ELLEN GILCHRIST

A Dangerous Age

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Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth

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