LOVE QUOTES LIV

quotations about love

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Septimus


If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

THICH NHAT HANH

O Magazine, Feb. 2007


Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Pere Goriot

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Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night.... You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"Death", Winesburg, Ohio

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One love drives out another.

SPANISH PROVERB


Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance, Dance, Dance

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Whatever our religious practice, love has no religion. On the contrary love is a religion of its own.

SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI

"Bajirao Mastani is a tribute to Mughal-e-Azam: Sanjay Leela Bhansali", Firstpost, December 22, 2015


When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.

U2

"When Love Comes to Town", Rattle and Hum


When you love someone, you don't have a choice.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

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Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Lighthousekeeping


All love is lost but upon God alone.

WILLIAM DUNBAR

The Merle and the Nightingale

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How far above all price Love's costly wine,
Which can the meanest chalice make divine!

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

"Love"


I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

ELLEN GILCHRIST

A Dangerous Age

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I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters


It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

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Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795

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Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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