LOVE QUOTES XVII

quotations about love

love quote

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Essay on Christianity"


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


Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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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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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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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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O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Tamerlane"

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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


Love is easy until it's tested. When it requires sacrifice, it's proven. It's easy to love people until we meet ... those people. It's easy to love our enemies until we actually have enemies.

CHRIS STEFANICK

"Love is Easy Until It's Tested", National Catholic Register, March 19, 2016


The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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The poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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Love's tongue is in the eyes.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

Piscatory Eclogues

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

attributed, Zen Soup: Tasty Morsels of Wisdom from Great Minds

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

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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If you believe yourself unfortunate, because you have "loved and lost," perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

NAPOLEON HILL

Think and Grow Rich

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When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

TIMOTHY KELLER

The Reason for God


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, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between, to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition

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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

NORA ROBERTS

The Calhouns