LOVE QUOTES XVII

quotations about love

love quote

The truth about love is that it is ever changing. Throughout the life of a relationship, individuals change and life itself changes. Love has to be flexible enough to accommodate new information, new roles, and new ways of loving one another.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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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 is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Love is ... telling someone when they have crap between their teeth.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


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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Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,
That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"The Way Of It"

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Love kills.

EDNA BUCHANAN

Love Kills

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To love is to destroy, and ... to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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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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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


Love fades, the dreamer wakes, the dream is brief.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dawn"


I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

A Long Fatal Love Chase

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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


Becoming addicted to love isn't uncommon. The chemicals released during that first phase are the same or similar to those released when consuming cocaine or drinking alcohol. And for some people the desire to feel that way all the time can be hard to resist.

KURT SMITH

"Yes, it is Possible to Be Addicted to Love", beliefnet, August 8, 2018


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

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Graziella: A Story of Italian Love


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"


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

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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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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