LOVE QUOTES XLIX

quotations about love


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Love ... like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

Tags: Eric Berne


You're not sick, you're just in love.

IRVING BERLIN

"You're Just in Love"

Tags: Irving Berlin


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

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

Tags: Stella Benson


And love is part and union in itself
Of all that is in nature, brilliant, pure--
Of all in feeling, sacred and sublime.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

Tags: Philip James Bailey


Oh! For love, for the painfully nourished, tenderly cherished, sweet frenzies illusion, the known-illusion within the globule of sentimental cynicism. For romantic love, then, I sacrifice honor, decency, human kindness, charity, honesty, friendship and the future -- all, (ah!) for love!

EDWARD ABBEY

The Serpents of Paradise

Tags: Edward Abbey


The capacity to love is the fruit of age, not the monopoly of youth.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Love is blind and in hindsight is twenty-twenty.

PETER FACINELLI

"Peter Facinelli recalls divorce from '90210' star Jennie Garth", FOX News, October 19, 2017


Love makes you do stupid things -- like making someone an omelet for no good reason other than to see them smile. Gross.

CARLA HERRERIA

"6 Reasons Being In Love Is The Absolute Worst", Huffington Post, February 12, 2016


Until Obi met Clara on board the cargo boat Sasa he had thought of love as another grossly over-rated European invention.

CHINUA ACHEBE

No Longer at Ease

Tags: Chinua Achebe


Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.

ENGLISH PROVERB


One love drives out another.

SPANISH PROVERB


Love makes the world go round.

FRENCH PROVERB


'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!

LEWIS CARROLL

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Tags: Lewis Carroll


A little while the rose,
And after that the thorn;
An hour of dewy morn,
And then the glamour goes.
Ah, love in beauty born,
A little while the rose!

HENRY VAN DYKE

"Roseleaf"

Tags: Henry Van Dyke


Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

ANDRE MAUROIS

An Art of Living


I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

NORMAN MAILER

Harlot's Ghost


When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

MARTIN AMIS

House of Meetings


Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

U2

"So Cruel", Achtung Baby


Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Optimism"