LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

O little hour of Love, so wild and sweet!
I gave the world, thy honey-dew to eat;
And now the tear-sown pathway of the dead
Echoes the patter of thy flying feet.

ELSA BARKER

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

Tags: Elsa Barker


Without love, we are nothing but organic molecules circling around the sun.

TIM LOTT

"Love is ... a torment and a joy. And it's not for softies", The Guardian, July 22, 2016

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a novelist, travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.


It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

Tags: Robert Hugh Benson


This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

Tags: Glen Duncan


I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Painted Drum


Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

Tags: Louis Auchincloss


Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Rival Ladies


Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon


Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


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


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

Tags: Sylvia Plath


So being in love is like being hooked up to a perpetual dopamine drip, and you get a little hit every time you see the person or touch them or think about them?

SEAN ILLING

"This is what love does to your brain", Vox, April 23, 2018


Love -- thou art deep --
I cannot cross thee --
But, were there Two
Instead of One --
Rower and Yacht -- some sov'reign Summer --
Who knows -- but we'd reach the Sun?

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love thou art high"

Tags: Emily Dickinson


You're not sick, you're just in love.

IRVING BERLIN

"You're Just in Love"

Tags: Irving Berlin


Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs


The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Tags: Samuel R. Delany


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Love, however doomed, had the capacity to attach buoys to the soul.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death

Tags: Ariana Franklin