LOVE QUOTES XLIII

quotations about love

For me, however, if I understand the concept, to love properly and in earnest one would have to do it anonymously, or at least in an undeclared fashion, so as not to seem to ask anything in return, since asking and getting are the antithesis of love--if, as I say, I have the concept aright, which from all I have said and all that has been said to me so far it appears I do not. It is very puzzling. Love, the kind that I mean, would require a superhuman capacity for sacrifice and self-denial, such as a saint possesses, or a god, and saints are monsters, as we know, and as for the gods--well.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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It is as absurd to deny that it is possible for a man always to love the same woman, as it would be to affirm that some famous musician needed several violins in order to execute a piece of music or compose a charming melody.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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And love is part and union in itself
Of all that is in nature, brilliant, pure--
Of all in feeling, sacred and sublime.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Love is never finished expressing itself.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

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Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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"God is love" became inverted into "love is God", so that it is now the West's undeclared religion--and perhaps its only generally accepted religion.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


The capacity to love is the fruit of age, not the monopoly of youth.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Love is an inevitable part of the human experience, and ironically, the least understood.

PRACHI GANGWANI

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


Love prepares us for martyrdom.

PHILIP KOSLOSKI

"Love is What Prepares Us For Every Form of Martyrdom", National Catholic Register, March 22, 2016


Love is not wanting the other to become a clone of ourselves. 'Other' offers resistance, pushing us to find what is self. Love is actively embracing our equality and pushing each other to realise our full potential and make our full contribution to the world.

HOWARD JONES

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our perplexity when alone.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

GEORGE ARNOLD

"Introspection"

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Love is a great beautifier.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


It's easy to live when you're in love.

LEO ROBIN

"Easy Living"


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


Our experience of love is more of a measure of whether we're connected with the universal source of this energy. In other words, there's some life energy that we have and sort of share with people we might be relating to that takes place, that operates whether we're sort of feeling in a state of love or not. But love is the measure of whether we're really connected with the internal source of this energy where we can consciously sort of fill up and amplify the amount of energy that we're able to take in from the inside.

JAMES REDFIELD

interview with Janice Stensrude, Mar. 24, 1994

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Love is the most destructive weapon of all, the only problem being how to contain and channel it into something that can be spanned, aimed and loosed.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires