LOVE QUOTES XXXVII

quotations about love

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion

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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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Love is but a fire that is to be transmitted.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy


Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Dec. 21, 1939

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There is no passion that more excites us to every thing that is noble and generous than virtuous Love.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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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


This love is a lichen....
etching on the unmoved rock
the only rune it knows.

SARAH LINDSAY

"Stubbornly", Twigs and Knucklebones

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Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

DEPECHE MODE

"The Love Thieves", Ultra

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Love is the power that can anchor and transform both our conflicts and our compromises, as we take firm and steady steps toward big and worthy goals. Although we've banished talk of love from our public discourse, we need to place it back where it belongs -- front and center, right alongside high standards and expectations.

KEN WAGNER

"Back to School -- New Statewide Offerings Include Love", Westerly Sun, August 31, 2016


Love takes work -- but we're so often slow to treat it as such. We'd rather endure half-hearted arrangements and let things fall apart, chalking it up as a fluke error or poor partner choice. And then we enter the next relationship, sights set high but with nothing to show by way of mindset improvement (other than blind optimism and/or a degree of jadedness.)

KRIS GAGE

"The 2 Biggest Things People Get Wrong About What Love Really Is", Your Tango, August 8, 2018


I want love on demand. Take it away when it hurts, but deliver it when desired, straight to my door.

HEIDI K. ISERN

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


To love is to will the good of the other.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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