LOVE QUOTES XXXIII

quotations about love

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


A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked

Tags: David Sedaris


Love demands that we stop asking "how can my wife/parent/sibling be better" and start asking "how can I make my wife/parent/sibling the happiest in the world?" Love demands death to self.

CHRIS STEFANICK

"Love is Easy Until It's Tested", National Catholic Register, March 19, 2016


When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

Tags: George Horace Lorimer


Love is love's reward.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Ranthorpe


To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C. S. LEWIS

The Four Loves


It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

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Love is when you come back from the supermarket having rung ten times to check what is needed and you arrive in and take off your wet coat and there's no milk and you go back out.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

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I love your letters. How far is that from saying I love you? Well--about a mile. Two miles.

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

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There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

SARAH DESSEN

The Truth About Forever


This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne


Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers

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I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own

BOB DYLAN

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", Together Through Life

Tags: Bob Dylan


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