LOVE QUOTES XLI

quotations about love

Love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it.

KOBO ABE

The Face of Another

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Oh! For love, for the painfully nourished, tenderly cherished, sweet frenzies illusion, the known-illusion within the globule of sentimental cynicism. For romantic love, then, I sacrifice honor, decency, human kindness, charity, honesty, friendship and the future -- all, (ah!) for love!

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

"Mozart's 'Figaro' Flies Thru Detroit!", America Jr., November 14, 2017


Have you ever wondered why you feel more energetic and generally healthier when you're in love? That sparkle in the eyes of those in love isn't mythical or just a fancy twist of words. Love is a visceral experience, and your body chemistry changes because of it. It is an antidote to illnesses and actually increases one's life span.

PRACHI GANGWANI

"I Hypothalamus You: Love Is In the Brain Not Heart", iDiva, August 4, 2016


Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'

MARY BAKER EDDY

"Love that finds solutions", Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 2016


Love is not a flow chart.

PAUL COSGROVE

"Love is not a flow chart", December 22, 2015


All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

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True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

MARTIN LUTHER

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

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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

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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 alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations

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Love gratified, is love satisfied -- and love satisfied, is indifference begun.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Clarissa

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Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers


Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

ROBERT FULGHUM

True Love

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What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

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Love is a temple, Love a higher law.

U2

"One", Achtung Baby

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

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Love is a confidence trick, that's all. It's Nature's way of suckering a mammal with a brain and a long, vulnerable gestation period into reproducing. Humans can think, so ordinary animal-grade maternal instinct wouldn't be enough to make human women go through all that, not if they stopped and thought about what's involved. So you have love. It's a substitute for rational thought.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Dust Tracks on a Road