LOVE QUOTES XXXII

quotations about love

The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

The Days Before

Tags: Katherine Anne Porter


Love is ... letting them flirt with the person next door, because you understand they need to feel like anything is possible.

EVA WISEMAN

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


There is no balm of Gilead,
No salve, no soothing ointment
To stay the pain of one who's had
In love a disappointment--
Unless it be that healing lotion
Of fixing on a new devotion.

RICHARD ARMOUR

"Pastures New"

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So this love still hold true
now what you gonna do
I won't give up on you
Between the moon and sun
this life is never done
I won't give up on you
Set up set up set up my love
I wont give up on you

TREVOR HALL

"Moon/Sun"


Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters


It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

HARRIET LERNER

"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012

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Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD

Robert Browning

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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon


I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own

BOB DYLAN

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", Together Through Life

Tags: Bob Dylan


Why is the measure of love loss?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Offshore Pirate"

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Love! Love until the night collapses!

PABLO NERUDA

"Come Up with Me"

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Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

GEORGE ARNOLD

"Introspection"

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Love cannot be cured by herbs.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love is meant to be put into right use full ness. Love is an action. It is an experience. Love is what love does.

MELANIE LUTZ

"Love is Meant to be put Into Right Use Full Ness", BeliefNet, November 2, 2017


Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

TANITH LEE

Delirium's Mistress

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When I think of what true love means to us, I also think of the mundane days of bill paying, chore completing, and grocery shopping. Even though we hate being adults, being adults together somehow seems tolerable and perhaps even survivable.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017