LOVE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about love

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once.

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

The Master and Margarita

Tags: Mikhail Bulgakov


There's always a side of folly with any serving of love. And isn't that what makes it so delicious?

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


Viewed from the supposed heights of reason, someone else's great love looks rather ordinary.

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

NORA ROBERTS

Blood Brothers

Tags: Nora Roberts


Love is kind of like a unicorn -- elusive and very hard to explain.

OLIVIA TRUFFAUT-WONG

"11 Movies To Watch When You're In Love To Get You Through The Good, The Bad, & All The Feels", Bustle, December 2015


Love is a kind of warfare.

OVID

The Art of Love

Tags: Ovid


Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one.

PABLO NERUDA

O Magazine, Feb. 2007


Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

Tags: Patricia Love


Oh, ill betide that villain love, not love,
That all its object and affection finds
In the mere contact of encircling arms!

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

The Painter of His Own Dishonour


Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

Tags: Peter Abrahams


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

Tags: Reuen Thomas


Since to be loved endures,
To love is wise.

ROBERT BRIDGES

Since to be Loved Endures

Tags: Robert Bridges


Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met -- or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

ROBERT BURNS

Ae Fond Kiss

Tags: Robert Burns


It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

Tags: Robert Hugh Benson


Love for those too easily won does not last long.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing:
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.

SAMUEL DANIEL

Hymen's Triumph

Tags: Samuel Daniel


To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017


With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down

SAPPHO

With His Venom

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


This love is a lichen....
etching on the unmoved rock
the only rune it knows.

SARAH LINDSAY

"Stubbornly", Twigs and Knucklebones

Tags: Sarah Lindsay