LOVE QUOTES XXIX

quotations about love

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Women Writers Talk


Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things,
But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).


Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.

ANONYMOUS


Strangelove
Strange highs and strange lows
Strangelove
That's how my love goes
Strangelove
Will you give it to me
Will you take the pain
I will give to you
Again and again
And will you return it

DEPECHE MODE

"Strangelove", Music for the Masses


Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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The beautiful thing about being with the one you love is promising to do it forever.

COLLEEN TEMPLE

"Our love is big. Bigger-than-my-stretch-marks big.", Huffington Post, March 30, 2016


The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

journal, Apr. 4, 1831

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The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

PHILIP ROTH

The Dying Animal

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Advantages of Having One Leg", On Lying in Bed and Other Essays


There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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

SARAH LINDSAY

"Stubbornly", Twigs and Knucklebones

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Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters


Though she had been besieged, courted, and pursued by men who had fallen in love with her, she did not in her heart believe in the existence of love. It seemed to her as unreal as the painted drop scenes, the temples of love, and the banks of roses that formed the settings for her dances. But though she was cold and insensitive to love, she was esteemed a wonderful mistress. She herself practiced love as a duty imposed by her profession, a part to be played that might sometimes please but always fatigued her and called for a high degree of art.

VICKI BAUM

Grand Hotel

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