LOVE QUOTES XXVI

quotations about love

O, high the happy bosom heaves
When love is in the dancer!

WITTER BYNNER

"Three Poplars"


Love's fire colors once our neutral form, to blacken to eternal embers.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

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Love subdues everything, except the felon heart.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love is but a fire that is to be transmitted.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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Love is basically for teenagers, and when it comes to real life for grown-ups, you're far better off with someone who's moderately pleased to see you when you're around, but leaves you in peace when you've got things to do.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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Love ... must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning -- a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, it's sunshine.

THE BEATLES

"The Word", Rubber Soul

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

AMY HEMPEL

"The Dog of the Marriage"

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What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth


Viewed from the supposed heights of reason, someone else's great love looks rather ordinary.

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


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 essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

SOPHOCLES

Antigone


Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands;
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

SANDRA BERNHARD

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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Love is kind of like a unicorn -- elusive and very hard to explain.

OLIVIA TRUFFAUT-WONG

"11 Movies To Watch When You're In Love To Get You Through The Good, The Bad, & All The Feels", Bustle, December 2015


Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB