LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

MARTIN LUTHER

Sermon XI, A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin


Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Women Writers Talk


Since to be loved endures,
To love is wise.

ROBERT BRIDGES

Since to be Loved Endures

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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"


Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.

ANONYMOUS


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


Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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The beautiful thing about being with the one you love is promising to do it forever.

COLLEEN TEMPLE

"Our love is big. Bigger-than-my-stretch-marks big.", Huffington Post, March 30, 2016


The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


The moment you love, you lose your freedom, for the simple reason that you have to take others into account. You have to worry about them, empathise with them and feel some responsibility for them. Sociopaths are the only truly free people. That is why freedom is highly overrated.

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.


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 pain of love is how slowly it dies.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil

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

PATRICIA LOVE

official website


Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


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


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 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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