quotations about love
To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017
O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!
WITTER BYNNER
"Three Poplars"
Love's language everywhere is known.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Love's Language"
All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"The Offshore Pirate"
How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye--
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Love's Language"
Love is the centre and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense
For all the ills that have been, or may be.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"What Love Is"
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Love is anterior to Life"
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"
Love and blindness are twin sisters.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Love for those too easily won does not last long.
ROMAN PROVERB
Love is a wound that never heals.
GERMAN PROVERB
Love laughs at locksmiths.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Love is blind but sees afar.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Life is a song. Love is the music.
ANONYMOUS
Love is God's dream for man.
POPE FRANCIS
Vatican Radio, October 29, 2017
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
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
The Virginians
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Stone Gods
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy