LOVE QUOTES V

quotations about love

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.... You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

JOHN LENNON

ATV interview, Dec. 2, 1969

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Sandman, #65

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

ERICH SEGAL

Love Story

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It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

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To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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You can't love people into who you need them to be.

JULIE MITCHELL

"Love is not written in the stars", Corsicana Daily Sun, November 6, 2017


Love holds everything together with a girdle of barbed wire encased in a sheath of pink cotton wool.

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.


Love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no control over it. But then, that is not so surprising, since love is basically chemistry.

JIM AL-KHALILI

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Empire

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Near even a candle, the visible heat.
So it is with a person in love.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"The Visible Heat"


Love's a bully, pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman.
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together a man and a woman
Stick together man and a woman
Stick together.

U2

"Do You Feel Loved", Pop


It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

VICTOR HUGO

Les Miserables

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party and is remembered for his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.

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You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

PAT BENATAR

"Hell is for Children"

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Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Love ain't nothing but a monster with two heads.

COLEMAN HELL

"2 Heads"