LOVE QUOTES XX

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Autobiography of Values

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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern

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Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love is anterior to Life"

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Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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Love is... carefully curated ignorance.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion

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The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.

ANACREON

"Ode XXIX", Odes

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Love is in the fresh bottle of cold water that magically appears by your bedside lamp every night, because he knows you get thirsty when you get up to nurse the baby every two hours.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew


If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of trees. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

American Note-Books, Mar. 9, 1853

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Love is a king who reigns without laws.

SPANISH PROVERB


Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that hapiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilac opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other Voices, Other Rooms


But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love Betwixt the Sexes", A Treatise of Human Nature


I've read more than a hundred books
Seeing love mentioned many thousand times
But despite all the places I've looked
It's still no clearer
I'm still no nearer
The meaning of love

DEPECHE MODE

"The Meaning of Love", A Broken Frame


My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to Blanche Jennings, May 8, 1909

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".

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At the beginning of a relationship we love with 100 percent of our heart. However, once we are hurt, we think that if we only love with 50 percent of our heart, it will not get hurt as much the next time around. But we end up getting hurt just as much. We have to give our relationship our full attention. We should not be afraid of love.

ANDREA BRISENO

"True love is built from broken pieces", The Rampage Online, March 28, 2016


The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

The Psychology of Romantic Love

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