LOVE QUOTES XXXII

quotations about love


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

JORGE LUIS BORGES
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"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions


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Love is the cheapest of religions.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Dec. 21, 1939

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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


Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

WILLIAM FAULKNER

"Beyond"

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If they substituted the word "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Why is the measure of love loss?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


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

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was an English playwright, poet, and novelist from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.


The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

SUSANNA MOORE

The Big Girls

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Strangelove
Strange highs and strange lows
Strangelove
That's how my love goes
Strangelove
Will you give it to me
Will you take the pain
I will give to you
Again and again
And will you return it

DEPECHE MODE

"Strangelove", Music for the Masses


You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.

U2

"One", Achtung Baby


Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors,
fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

Islanders and the Fisher of Men

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How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye--
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Love's Language"


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"


Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Cerulean Sins

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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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You can't make me love you.

NEIL GAIMAN

Coraline

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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