LOVE QUOTES XVI

quotations about love

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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasure prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.

JOHN DONNE

The Bait

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Love must be first and last, the part, the whole;
Must fill the human void as ocean fills
Its broadest channels, ancient as the hills,
And slightest shell o'er which its waters roll.

WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN

"Love"

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?
Sometimes it ought to be.
Sometimes it is.

DORIS LESSING

Play with a Tiger

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Love is the only thing that pays for birth,
Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above
This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth,
Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

HONORE DE BALZAC

A Woman of Thirty


In the beginning, love is all you know. You don't know it is love, of course, all you know is that some soft, good-smelling person holds you, feeds you, talks to you and empties your pants when they are full. As you age you come to realize this feeling is, indeed, love, and mommy and daddy become the center of your universe. You love them more than anything, other than your dog, your bike and your sister, of course, if you must. It is an all-encompassing, all-consuming love that warms you like the sun and sustains you like the air you breathe. And that brand of love is all you know until one day a blonde girl across the classroom bats her eyes at you or a dark-eyed boy in the hall gives you a crooked, pimply grin, and your insides turn to warm mush. At first you think you might have gotten a bad taco at lunch, but no, it is love.

JEFF MULLIN

"Love is a lifelong thrill ride", Enid News, February 14, 2016


Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

DAVID RICHO

How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

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Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

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When we're young, we think it will never work out for the long-term, so we let our minds and hearts wander, missing the point of it all. But as we get older, then we realize what love is, and we think back to past situations where we would've, should've and could've done it differently but when we go to reconcile we find that he/she has moved on. We try to do the same, but it never works out because we are comparing, comparing what he have to what we want, or what we had, only to find out that it will never be the same. You may love the next person, but your heart knows that no connection will ever be as great as the first time.

IDOTHIS4THELOVE

"Dating & Relationships: Do You Ever Get Over Your First Love?", Inscribe Magazine, September 1, 2016


Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,
That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"The Way Of It"

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With the secularization of the Western world, we are turning to romantic love to give us what we once looked for in the realm of the divine. Transcendence, meaning, wholeness, and ecstasy.

ESTHER PEREL

"A top couples' therapist says our 'religion of romantic love' is making relationships harder", Business Insider, November 10, 2017


The truth about love is that it is ever changing. Throughout the life of a relationship, individuals change and life itself changes. Love has to be flexible enough to accommodate new information, new roles, and new ways of loving one another.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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I saw her, met her, liked her, got to know her, let her know I was interested, pursued her, wooed her, won a place with her, spent time with her and grew to love her.

BRADY CRAIN

"Altitude Sickness: Romantic love is a verb", Mountain Times, March 9, 2016


Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.

CARROLL BRYANT

blog post, September 19, 2012


To love is to destroy, and ... to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

KURT VONNEGUT

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons


In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Graziella: A Story of Italian Love


Love kills.

EDNA BUCHANAN

Love Kills

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Man loves most that which is his own.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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