LOVE QUOTES XXXII

quotations about love

Upon the roadway of my life,
A guide-board I will leave of love,
So those who follow in my steps
May guided be to hills above.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Guide-Board"


True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

WASHINGTON IRVING

"The Wife", The Sketch Book


To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017


To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse


To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions

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Though this faith in love as the one democratic, even universal, form of salvation open to us moderns is the result of a long religious history that saw divine love as the origin of human love and as the model to be imitated, it has paradoxically come into its own because of a decline in religious faith. It has been possible only because, since the end of the eighteenth century, love has increasingly filled the vacuum left by the retreat of Christianity.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


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


They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs

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There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.

MAUD LINDSAY

"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories

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There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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There is no passion that more excites us to every thing that is noble and generous than virtuous Love.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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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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There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

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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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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

official website


The pain of love is how slowly it dies.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil

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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

PHILIP ROTH

The Dying Animal

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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England