LOVE QUOTES XXXIV

quotations about love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

JAMES THURBER

Life Magazine, Mar. 14, 1960

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Love is when you come back from the supermarket having rung ten times to check what is needed and you arrive in and take off your wet coat and there's no milk and you go back out.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


Love likes not the falling fruit,
Nor the withered tree.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

As Ye Came from the Holy Land

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 - 1618) was an English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England.

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Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

The Days Before

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Love needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

DEPECHE MODE

"The Love Thieves", Ultra

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Love on his errand bound to go
Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
Where way is none, 't will creep and wind
And eat through Alps its home to find.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Love


Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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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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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Dec. 20, 1810

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Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


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

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love

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Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.

WALTER MOSLEY

The Man in My Basement

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Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear,
A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,
The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment,
What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love!
For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind,
The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords,
The story without an end that angels throng to hear,
The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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Never mingle love and business.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was an English playwright, poet, and novelist from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.


No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


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

TURKISH PROVERB


None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought