LOVE QUOTES LIII

quotations about love

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


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

MARTIN AMIS

House of Meetings


Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

MARTIN AMIS

The Second Plane

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The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The Burning Secret and Other Stories

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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Bingo Palace

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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body


I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters


Her heart consenteth before her lips say: Yea; and in this interval lieth her Paradise; wherefore she would prolong it.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


Love is an anesthesia. It puts you to sleep, it allows you to overlook, not question, not care ... and then, one day, you come to. And, by God and all his horny angels ... it's an eye opener.

ANN WUEHLER

The Next Mrs. Jacob Anderson

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How far above all price Love's costly wine,
Which can the meanest chalice make divine!

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

"Love"


Love is a word from the old poems you read. In real life there is no love. Men come together like apes and birds. It is sweet sometimes to play with a woman, but the wind blows and there is an end of it.

VICKI BAUM

Love and Death in Bali

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Love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Christmas Train

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You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys and that's why love is stronger. It builds.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

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In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked at.

KOBO ABE

The Box Man

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Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

"Mozart's 'Figaro' Flies Thru Detroit!", America Jr., November 14, 2017


Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Words of Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love knows no law.

PORTUGUESE PROVERB


Love makes the world go round.

FRENCH PROVERB


If you want to be loved, then love.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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