LOVE QUOTES XXII

quotations about love

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

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Since to be loved endures,
To love is wise.

ROBERT BRIDGES

Since to be Loved Endures

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Love and death were what novels were about.

OAKLEY HALL

Love and War in California

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In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

KENNETH RAND

"The Old Lovers"

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

JAMES JOYCE

notes for his play Exiles

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Love and blindness are twin sisters.

RUSSIAN PROVERB

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Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one.

PABLO NERUDA

O Magazine, Feb. 2007


Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fraternity


Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?

EMILY BRONTE

Love and Friendship

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew


I felt I had stepped into something big and splendid, as if I had been a caterpillar walking into the heart of a red rose. I felt prim and small and petty. Until then I had never known what love meant.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Simon the Jester


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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If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift repulsions play.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Visit

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True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors,
fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


Some sigh and cry for love
Ah, but in Pa-ree they die for love
Some waste away for love
Just the same -- hooray for love!

LEO ROBIN

"Hooray for Love"

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