LOVE QUOTES XXXVIII

quotations about love

Let no man believe he truly loves,
Who lives, or moves, or thinks, or hath his being
In any other atmosphere than Love's,
Who is our absolute master.

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

Keep Your Own Secret


The sweetness of human love is to be compared, therefore, to the sweetness of a flower, whose glowing colors and voluptuous fragrance are intended by Nature to attract the winged insects, whose visits are necessary for the fertilization of the seed. The color fades, the flower falls, the perfume vanishes, death soon follows after; but Nature is not mocked.

ARTHUR FOLEY WINNINGTON-INGRAM

"Love's Nature", Thoughts on Love and Death


God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Note Books


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.

ZSA ZSA GABOR

Newsweek, Mar. 28, 1960

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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Fusees


Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.

SIR FRANCIS BACON

"Of Love", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral


Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

BRET HARTE

"Two Men of Sandy Bar"

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The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage


I am moved, still, at the power of love to set us on life changing courses, and to make our lives shine brightly with the light of God. It's dark out there, folks. Let's become the light of love, even more, where it is most desperately needed.

JANET FULLER

"Love is the light we need", Burlington Times News, October 28, 2017


Love is the most common miracle.

JOHN GREEN

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


Love is to be the lodestar of our lives and, if blessed with the capacity to exercise it, we can aspire to imitate God.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


They do best, who if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarters; and sever it wholly from their serious affairs, and actions, of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men, that they can no ways be true to their own ends.

SIR FRANCIS BACON

"Of Love", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral

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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

TANITH LEE

Metallic Love

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

JOYCE KILMER

"In Memory"

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To men of a certain type
The suspicion that they are incapable of loving
Is as disturbing to their self-esteem
As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party

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Now on the summit of Love's topmost peak
Kiss we and part; no farther can we go:
And better death than we from high to low
Should dwindle or decline from strong to weak.
We have found all, there is no more to seek;
All have we proved, no more is there to know;
And Time could only tutor us to eke
Out rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow.
We cannot keep at such a height as this;
And even straining souls like ours inhale
But once in life so rarified a bliss.
What if we lingered till love's breath should fail!
Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss,
Then down by separate pathways to the vale.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"Love's Wisdom", Lyrical Poems

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913) was an English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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Love, they say, is a pain
Infinite as the soul,
Ever a longing to be
Love's, to infinity,
Ever a longing in vain
After a vanishing goal.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"Rosa Mundi"