LOVE QUOTES L

quotations about love

The heart is forever unfaithful, and the feelings of love will come and go, but true love is not about what you feel. It is about what you do.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

EDGAR GUEST

Home Rhymes

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Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse
That brands and burdens; it is life and death.
It is the great law of the universe;
And nothing can exist without its breath.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.

ENGLISH PROVERB


A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune

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Love is blind.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales

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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


Love grows with obstacles.

GERMAN PROVERB


For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


I think love and hate are really the same thing. They're what you feel when someone matters more to you than anything else; more than yourself, even.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


When you love someone
you have to let them go.
It's the only way to keep them.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

Seasons of Your Heart


The gospel of love spread among a sex for the needs of militarism and the labor market has filled woman with the spiritual hysteria of apostleship.

MARIAN COX

"The Fools of Love", The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays


Love's dream, too, knows decay;
Awhile the soul-harp's wildly thrilling strain
Pours out those notes we ne'er forget again,
And the deep fountains of the heart burst forth
As if to gladden every spot of earth;
But O! it will not stay.

MARY T. LATHRAP

"Song of the Earth-Weary"

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Love is an amazing magnet.

NICHOLSON BAKER

Traveling Sprinkler

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Love knows no law.

PORTUGUESE PROVERB


A lover is like a firefly,
lighting your life for a moment,
then leaving you to deal with the darkness
Until it flashes again.

RICH REITH

"Soulmate"


We are told from an early age that our true love is out there, waiting for us and so we yearn to find them, to know what it feels like to experience true love, to know you have made the right choice. The truth about love is that it is often bewildering and unknowable. You may never know if you have made the right choice. But when love is true, you embrace all the unknowns, regardless.

ROXANNE GAY

"Where the Hell Is the Love of My Life?", New York Times, October 18, 2018