LOVE QUOTES XLIX

quotations about love

The girlish talk of love and lovers is henceforth stale and commonplace. The cheap jokes of the comic papers on love and its poor counterfeit, flirtation, are a blasphemy. Love-romances and love-poems have lost their charm, so inadequate are they to tell love's true story. She is herself the romance; she is herself the poem.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder

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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


We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept--our own selves--that we love.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

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Love ... like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Until Obi met Clara on board the cargo boat Sasa he had thought of love as another grossly over-rated European invention.

CHINUA ACHEBE

No Longer at Ease

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We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims

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You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love


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


True love, selfless love, does not wither as beauty fades or life becomes difficult. If anything, its roots grow deeper and its branches spread farther with each shared experience.

EDITOR

"Music and the Spoken Word: What love is", Deseret News, April 2, 2016


Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

U2

"So Cruel", Achtung Baby


You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love.

ROLAND BARTHES

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments


The wine of Love can be obtained by none,
Save Him who trod the winepress all alone.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

"Love"


Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Passer Mortuus Est"

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Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

BERTOLT BRECHT

"Love of Whom?"

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Christmas sermon delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, 1957

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People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You know? You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Truman Capote: Conversations


What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

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