LOVE QUOTES XXIII

quotations about love

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Thy love is like deep waters all around--
Warm pulsing waters, in whose brooding sound
The lone wail of my heart is lulled with dreams,
And the far clamour of the world is drowned.

ELSA BARKER

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

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We can love a partner but not necessarily trust them. But when we trust a partner, loving them becomes much easier.

VIKKI ZIEGLER

"The Top 7 Reasons Why Marriages Last", Huffington Post, November 14, 2017


We need to cooperate to survive, to subsist, to learn, to reproduce and to raise our children. Romantic and parental love is essentially the neurochemical reward for cooperating, which is cognitively quite difficult.

ANNA MACHIN

"What is love? You asked Google -- here's the answer", The Guardian, July 11, 2018


"To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved."

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

ROBERT BELL

The Ladder of Gold

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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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When love grows diseas'd, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling'ring and consumptive passion.

GEORGE ETHEREGE

The Man of Mode

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Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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Love abounds in all things,
excels from the depths to beyond the stars,
is lovingly disposed to all things.
She has given the king on high
the kiss of peace.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

"Caritas abundat"


Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters


Love is the impulse which directs the world,
And all things know it and obey its power.
Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled;
The bee that takes the pollen to the flower;
The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast
To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;--
Each but obeys creative Love's behest,
Which everywhere instinctively is done.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove,
Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate,
Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate
As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love:
He bears a load which nothing can remove,
A killing, withering weight.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"The Solitary"

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The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

journal, Apr. 4, 1831

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To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"The Buried Life"

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God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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