LOVE QUOTES XXIX

quotations about love

Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Treatise on the Love of God


The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

SUSANNA MOORE

The Big Girls

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Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, it's sunshine.

THE BEATLES

"The Word", Rubber Soul

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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To love is to will the good of the other.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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The moment you love, you lose your freedom, for the simple reason that you have to take others into account. You have to worry about them, empathise with them and feel some responsibility for them. Sociopaths are the only truly free people. That is why freedom is highly overrated.

TIM LOTT

"Love is ... a torment and a joy. And it's not for softies", The Guardian, July 22, 2016

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a novelist, travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.


No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival.

TURKISH PROVERB


Though she had been besieged, courted, and pursued by men who had fallen in love with her, she did not in her heart believe in the existence of love. It seemed to her as unreal as the painted drop scenes, the temples of love, and the banks of roses that formed the settings for her dances. But though she was cold and insensitive to love, she was esteemed a wonderful mistress. She herself practiced love as a duty imposed by her profession, a part to be played that might sometimes please but always fatigued her and called for a high degree of art.

VICKI BAUM

Grand Hotel

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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

WILLIAM FAULKNER

"Beyond"

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Love may turn to indifference with possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


There is no evil angel but Love.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.

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Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

WITTER BYNNER

"Rose-Time"

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O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.

YIDDISH PROVERB


Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Ghost


Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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Maybe love never dies, maybe it hides between our veins that frail our nerves, maybe it is the clog in our arteries that makes our heart ache ... maybe love is like a mysterious stowaway living inside our body that our cells keep chasing but it never gets caught & that chase keeps us alive.

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


If love is indeed a mirage then how does it quench real needs like our thirst, satiate our hunger? Are thirst & hunger just a state of mind that can be manipulated, satiated simply by a mirage?

AMIT MEHRA

"As I Watch a Love End I Realize, Love is Always a Stowaway", The Good Men Project, March 14, 2016


Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Garden of Epicurus

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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Once you love someone it's like cancer. It spreads and spreads until it eats you up.

ANN WUEHLER

Interviews With Loneliness

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