LOVE QUOTES XXIII

quotations about love

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Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.

LARRY NIVEN

Ringworld

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No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.

U2

"One", Achtung Baby


When you find love you'll realize love was always there in one way or another.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


The loves of men but vary in degrees--
They find no new expression for the flame.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Isaura"


What a mystery is love! We cannot define it; we can only indicate it by describing the occasion on which it arises in the soul. If human love is inexplicable, Divine love is an ocean too deep for the plummet of man or archangel; too broad to be bounded by the thought of the loftiest intelligence in the universe. He who knows not in his inmost consciousness the love of God, will find this book sealed to his understanding. It can only be unlocked by the key of experience. Love is not a product of the reason. It is the free play of the spiritual sensibilities in the possession of its object. God is not only love, but he is love revealed. The perfect love of God toward man is designed to call forth perfect love toward God in man's bosom. Though the mirror on which that love is reflected is broken into uneven planes and reflects s distorted image--though the human soul at its best earthly estate under grace is shattered by infirmities and incurable imperfections--yet the love which man cherishes toward God may flow with all the united force of his being. The history of God's intercourse with men is the chronicle of his love. This is the only history which will outlive time itself, and escape the conflagration which will burn up the world and all the works therein. This will be our textbook forever. We can contemplate no more sublime and ennobling theme. The brightness of the material universe pales before the splendors of the Divine character--that central fire which kindles the souls of seraphs in heaven and melts the hearts of sinners on earth. Thus the science of the divine Heart infinitely above the science of the almighty Hand.

DANIEL STEELE

"Love Revealed", Love Enthroned


We can love a partner but not necessarily trust them. But when we trust a partner, loving them becomes much easier.

VIKKI ZIEGLER

"The Top 7 Reasons Why Marriages Last", Huffington Post, November 14, 2017


Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love

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It isn't being happy together ... that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Ministry of Fear


Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


No love without bread and wine.

FRENCH PROVERB


All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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Forget about everything else. Fall in love and stay there.

AMISHA SETHI

"Love is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016


Love may turn to indifference with possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

ROBERT BELL

The Ladder of Gold

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"To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved."

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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When love grows diseas'd, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling'ring and consumptive passion.

GEORGE ETHEREGE

The Man of Mode

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Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance


We need to cooperate to survive, to subsist, to learn, to reproduce and to raise our children. Romantic and parental love is essentially the neurochemical reward for cooperating, which is cognitively quite difficult.

ANNA MACHIN

"What is love? You asked Google -- here's the answer", The Guardian, July 11, 2018


Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians