LOVE QUOTES XXXIV

quotations about love

No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival.

TURKISH PROVERB


Love for those too easily won does not last long.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love cannot be cured by herbs.

ROMAN PROVERB


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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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

SARAH DESSEN

The Truth About Forever


I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.

U2

"A Man and A Woman", How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb


When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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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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In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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Why the pull of sexual attraction to someone who is unfamiliar, whose allure as Horace marked, portends a war with one's self? As we'll consider, the object of sexual desire has a different constitution from the focus of personal love. With sexual love, there is an emphasis upon touch and kinesthesia that alters the whole/part structure of objects. It brings with it a shift in temporality as well as makes the pleasure of repetitive sexual scenarios curiously new and unique.

PETER HADREAS

A Phenomenology of Love and Hate

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Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Treatise on the Love of God


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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Being in love is an elaborate state of anticipation for the continual exchanging of certain kinds of gifts. The gifts can range from a glance to the offering of the entire self. But the gifts must be gifts: they cannot be claimed. One has no rights as a lover--except the right to anticipate what the other wishes to give.

JOHN BERGER

G. John Berger

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I suppose it may be God's way of telling us to love people while they're here, because tomorrow they may be gone. I guess that's a pretty sorry answer, but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well

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I sought for love on the highway,
For love unselfish and pure,
And found it in good deeds blooming,
Tho' often in haunts obscure.

HENRY ABBEY

"Trailing Arbutus"

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I love your letters. How far is that from saying I love you? Well--about a mile. Two miles.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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