LOVE QUOTES XXXIV

quotations about love

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C. S. LEWIS

The Four Loves


Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love.

VICTOR HUGO

Toilers of the Sea

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.

U2

"A Man and A Woman", How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb


No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival.

TURKISH PROVERB


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Every relationship you enter into is a form of a love relationship. It is a sharing of energy, time and space. It is a partnership. It is unity in its highest form. We become intimate by the contract of the joining itself.

TERRELL WASHINGTON

"To Love is to Trust", The Good Men Project, August 18, 2016


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

SWEDISH PROVERB

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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


Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand--Love--is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.

SPIKE LEE

Do the Right Thing

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One who possesses such immense power over our existence will inspire awe that easily threatens to overwhelm us, even if we believe he will never abandon or destroy us.... Its grandeur makes us feel both powerful and powerless--not just to possess the loved one--but in our existence itself: the existence which we yearn for love to anchor. To be in a relationship of love is, in other words, always a relationship of fear; indeed, the greater the love the greater the fear.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Love for those too easily won does not last long.

ROMAN PROVERB


It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove,
Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate,
Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate
As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love:
He bears a load which nothing can remove,
A killing, withering weight.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"The Solitary"

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You can't make me love you.

NEIL GAIMAN

Coraline

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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Love covers a multitude of sins.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions

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In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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