LOVE QUOTES XVII

quotations about love

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Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

DAVID RICHO

How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

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Love between a man and woman is war.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Father

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If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

STEPHEN KING

The Drawing of the Three


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

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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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


Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

ELLEN KEY

"The Morality of Woman"

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Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number
Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only.
Only to love and to be loved again.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"

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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 the only thing that pays for birth,
Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above
This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth,
Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

BRUCE LEE

The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee

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All you need is love. And a tiara. And maybe a cookie.

ANONYMOUS


When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

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.


Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Was it a Dream?"


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


Free-market free love is simultaneously a utopian idea and a dystopian idea. The idea of total sexual freedom is an ideal, but then it's also a Michel Houellebecq nightmare. Now online dating and apps have made that normal. Everyone is "on the market" or "off the market"; friends with "benefits," "investing" time--these are all economic metaphors.

MOIRA WEIGEL

"Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel", The Nation, August 29, 2016


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, 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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

EMMA GOLDMAN

Anarchism and Other Essays

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We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like costumes grandsires wore.

EMILY DICKINSON

"We Outgrow Love Like Other Things"

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Autobiography of Values

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