LOVE QUOTES XVI

quotations about love

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We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead


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The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

GARRISON KEILLOR

"Life's Variety Pack", A Prairie Home Companion, Nov. 3, 2009

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Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Was it a Dream?"


Some things you can feel coming. You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. When you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

UMBERTO ECO

Foucault's Pendulum

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Love is an alliance of friendship and of lust; if the former predominate, it is a passion exalted and refined, but if the latter, gross and sensual.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.


We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like costumes grandsires wore.

EMILY DICKINSON

"We Outgrow Love Like Other Things"

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Love fades, the dreamer wakes, the dream is brief.

MAURICE BROWNE

"At Dawn"


Love is service! A humble service, done in silence and hiddenness, as Jesus himself said: 'Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.'

POPE FRANCIS

"Love is the hidden service we do for others, Pope Francis says", Angelus: The Tidings Online, March 14, 2016


At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Dreams

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Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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You will never again love someone the same way as you did the one who got away, but you can love again and only when you allow yourself to give up the dream of finding your way back to that one certain person will you really see what else lies ahead. True love never ends but relationships and marriages do and sometimes the broken pieces are just never meant to be put back together. Heal yourself, heal your heart, and believe that new love can be just as great, or even better, than the idealistic love you have carried around with you for much too long. Free yourself and new love will come again.

SHANNON FERGUSON

"Sometimes Love Is Simply Not Enough", Huffington Post, May 13, 2016


Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

ELLEN KEY

"The Morality of Woman"

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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

A Long Fatal Love Chase

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Graziella: A Story of Italian Love


Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasure prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.

JOHN DONNE

The Bait

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Love between a man and woman is war.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Father

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Love is a moral drunkenness; and, whilst it lasts, the shrew seems gentle, the tigress a dove, the flirt constant, and the fiend an angel.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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If you believe yourself unfortunate, because you have "loved and lost," perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

NAPOLEON HILL

Think and Grow Rich

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

attributed, Zen Soup: Tasty Morsels of Wisdom from Great Minds

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