LOVE QUOTES XLVIII

quotations about love

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Christmas sermon delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, 1957

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For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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.


For me, however, if I understand the concept, to love properly and in earnest one would have to do it anonymously, or at least in an undeclared fashion, so as not to seem to ask anything in return, since asking and getting are the antithesis of love--if, as I say, I have the concept aright, which from all I have said and all that has been said to me so far it appears I do not. It is very puzzling. Love, the kind that I mean, would require a superhuman capacity for sacrifice and self-denial, such as a saint possesses, or a god, and saints are monsters, as we know, and as for the gods--well.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

SARAH DESSEN

This Lullaby


I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

interview with Maria Shriver, The Today Show, November 3, 2014

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In our culture, love is romanticized as a mystifying, random whirl of passion that happens to a person. Falling in love is thought to be the culmination of love. Yet, love is only meaningful and lasting when a person chooses to love responsibly and welcomes the opportunity to allow love to grow and deepen with time.

ROKELLE LERNER

Affirmations for the Inner Child

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It is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Shadowy Waters

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Looking back, I should have known better than to accompany Hugh to a love story. Such movies are always a danger, as unlike battling aliens or going undercover to track a serial killer, falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced at some point in their lives. The theme is universal and encourages the viewer to make a number of unhealthy comparisons, ultimately raising the question "Why can't our lives be like that?" It's a box best left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.

DAVID SEDARIS

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim


Love -- thou art deep --
I cannot cross thee --
But, were there Two
Instead of One --
Rower and Yacht -- some sov'reign Summer --
Who knows -- but we'd reach the Sun?

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love thou art high"

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Love is a concept none of us really understand but yet we try to define it in the small square of accepted norms. When two people love each other and want to be together in more than one way, gender, society, age, caste, creed stops mattering.

SHRIYA JOSHI

"This Short Film About Freedom To Love Is Our Gift To You On Independence Day", Storypick, August 12, 2016


Love is a jeering mime.

KENNETH RAND

"Ante Lucem"

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Love is my religion--I could die for that.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Fanny Brawne, Oct. 13, 1819

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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

ROBERT FULGHUM

True Love

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Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers


Love makes you do stupid things -- like making someone an omelet for no good reason other than to see them smile. Gross.

CARLA HERRERIA

"6 Reasons Being In Love Is The Absolute Worst", Huffington Post, February 12, 2016


Love prepares us for martyrdom.

PHILIP KOSLOSKI

"Love is What Prepares Us For Every Form of Martyrdom", National Catholic Register, March 22, 2016


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

JOHN DONNE

The Sun Rising

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So being in love is like being hooked up to a perpetual dopamine drip, and you get a little hit every time you see the person or touch them or think about them?

SEAN ILLING

"This is what love does to your brain", Vox, April 23, 2018