LOVE QUOTES XVIII

quotations about love

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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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 one of the last things that gives meaning and magic in a world where god is dead and nothing matters anymore.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


Some things you can feel coming. You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. When you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

UMBERTO ECO

Foucault's Pendulum

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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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


All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air,
It makes the reptile equal to the God;
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.

FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD

Robert Browning


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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Love kills.

EDNA BUCHANAN

Love Kills

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Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Eragon


Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.

CARROLL BRYANT

blog post, September 19, 2012


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


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

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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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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Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that hapiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilac opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms


A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

THOMAS HARDY

The Return of the Native

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If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly


Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

KENNETH RAND

"The Old Lovers"

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