LOVE QUOTES XXXI

quotations about love

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

HARRIET LERNER

"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012

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Why is the measure of love loss?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


When people fall in love they not only change themselves, but in their eyes the whole world changes. They may have been commonplace or dull before. But once in love they take on a strange brightness. And however uninteresting and dreary the world may have seemed to them, it at once becomes a fairyland.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Love", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Cerulean Sins

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Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

MARTIN LUTHER

Sermon XI, A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin


Love! Love until the night collapses!

PABLO NERUDA

"Come Up with Me"

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Love is a spiritual force, the deep aliveness that is the essence of being before we think about it.

JUDITH SEDGEMAN

Love Is Not What You Think


True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart


God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Note Books


Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

THE BEATLES

"I'm Looking Through You", 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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Once you love someone it's like cancer. It spreads and spreads until it eats you up.

ANN WUEHLER

Interviews With Loneliness

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Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire
Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"In the Wood of Finvara"

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Love is many things and sometimes we are never really sure if it even exists, but all I know is that if you were to show me her soul in a photograph, I wouldn't even ask to see the others.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry

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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Invisible Monsters

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Strangelove
Strange highs and strange lows
Strangelove
That's how my love goes
Strangelove
Will you give it to me
Will you take the pain
I will give to you
Again and again
And will you return it

DEPECHE MODE

"Strangelove", Music for the Masses


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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