LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

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Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why

SHERYL CROW

"Always on Your Side"


Wisdom and love have nothing to do with one another. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- you'll stick your finger in anything.

ROBERT ALTMAN

attributed, Esquire the Meaning of Life: Wisdom, Humor, and Damn Good Advice from 64 Extraordinary Lives

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Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love is anterior to Life"

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Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

MARIE CORELLI

The Master Christian

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Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

The Reed of God

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The poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

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

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There is no love that is not an echo.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track.
The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

KURT VONNEGUT

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons


If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters


Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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Love is in the fresh bottle of cold water that magically appears by your bedside lamp every night, because he knows you get thirsty when you get up to nurse the baby every two hours.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

PABLO NERUDA

Morning XII

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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Each act of love is a demonstration of the powerful right use of the heart, the example of our oneness of loving our brother as ourself. It is everything that transforms the present moment into love's miracle. It is you and me in resonance vibrating ever forward with love.

MELANIE LUTZ

"Love is Meant to be put Into Right Use Full Ness", BeliefNet, November 2, 2017


If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


Love is a king who reigns without laws.

SPANISH PROVERB


Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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