LOVE QUOTES VIII

quotations about love

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

ERICH SEGAL

Love Story

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Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

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.


Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Lady Oracle

Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

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Surely, love is both work and wages.

RICHARD BAXTER

The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter

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The world has little to bestow
Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Delia

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We all crave love. Its universal language unites us as humans. Yet, it also slays us. If you gave people a choice between heartbreak and the Zika virus, we'd all be feverish in bed. Love's pain spreads across our flesh faster than any plague. As soon as you think you're cured, you relapse.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH

Aphorisms

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (September 13, 1830 - March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer noted for her excellent psychological novels. She portrayed life among both the poor and the aristocratic.


When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

TOM ROBBINS

Still Life with Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which was made into a movie in 1993 starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.

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At night the grackle Love will start
To shriek and shrill,
Nor will he once be still
Till he has wide awake the backward heart.
So selfish Love,
Go hush;
Feathers and claws take off
Or seek some bush.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

"Three Valentines"

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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

ANNE CARSON

The Beauty of the Husband

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I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

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If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone.
What kind of tide can an ocean bestow
if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

SARAH LINDSAY

"Aunt Lydia Practices Loving Komodo Dragons", Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower


It's logical that everyone wants to be in love. Then, for a while, life isn't taken up with the tedium of thinking everything through, talking things through. It's nice to be able to notice small objects or small moments, to point them out and to have someone eager to pretend that there's more to them than it seems.

ANN BEATTIE

"Moving Water", The New Yorker Stories

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

COLEMAN HELL

"2 Heads"


Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin,
As sweet as clover-honey in its cell;
Love is the password whereby souls get in
To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

HERMANN HESSE

Peter Camenzind

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Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

SEAN O'FAOLAIN

Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966


Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


Love's never a fair trade.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Her works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

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Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

JOHN DRYDEN

Tyrannic Love