LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

love quote

Let your love flow out on all living things.

WILLIAM STYRON

Sophie's Choice

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I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

NORA ROBERTS

The Calhouns


You can fall in love with life, you can fall in love with yourself and with those around you. Tell the people important to you that you love them, and most importantly treat them like you do. Don't take love for granted because it's what binds the world together.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


Love is not some mushy feeling for your parents that you are born with, or a romanticized sexuality you learn from magazines. It is action. If you know what love is you can never be in doubt about whether someone loves you or you love someone.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Fury of Rachel Monette

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The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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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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Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life.
In just a glance, down here on magic street,
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic

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The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track.
The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

The Reed of God

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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


O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Tamerlane"

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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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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 poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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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's tongue is in the eyes.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

Piscatory Eclogues

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Kafka on the Shore

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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