LOVE QUOTES XLIII

quotations about love

Now on the summit of Love's topmost peak
Kiss we and part; no farther can we go:
And better death than we from high to low
Should dwindle or decline from strong to weak.
We have found all, there is no more to seek;
All have we proved, no more is there to know;
And Time could only tutor us to eke
Out rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow.
We cannot keep at such a height as this;
And even straining souls like ours inhale
But once in life so rarified a bliss.
What if we lingered till love's breath should fail!
Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss,
Then down by separate pathways to the vale.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"Love's Wisdom", Lyrical Poems

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913) was an English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

BETTE DAVIS

The Lonely Life

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Poems from Blake's Notebook


For me, however, if I understand the concept, to love properly and in earnest one would have to do it anonymously, or at least in an undeclared fashion, so as not to seem to ask anything in return, since asking and getting are the antithesis of love--if, as I say, I have the concept aright, which from all I have said and all that has been said to me so far it appears I do not. It is very puzzling. Love, the kind that I mean, would require a superhuman capacity for sacrifice and self-denial, such as a saint possesses, or a god, and saints are monsters, as we know, and as for the gods--well.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides

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Love is the union between natural craving and sentiment.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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The heart is forever unfaithful, and the feelings of love will come and go, but true love is not about what you feel. It is about what you do.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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Love is to be the lodestar of our lives and, if blessed with the capacity to exercise it, we can aspire to imitate God.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

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


If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Valley of Horses

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Love's the big hint life can't stop dropping, the biggest beguilement of all.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live


All love's details burned bright. Surely they meant something? Surely they were enough? But they came and went and there we still were, with new unfillable space between us.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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In love two individuals share the same interest--each being interested only in the other's welfare.

B. V. TRIPURARI

"Love Is the Answer", Huffington Post, March 29, 2016


Love is not wanting the other to become a clone of ourselves. 'Other' offers resistance, pushing us to find what is self. Love is actively embracing our equality and pushing each other to realise our full potential and make our full contribution to the world.

HOWARD JONES

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


Until Obi met Clara on board the cargo boat Sasa he had thought of love as another grossly over-rated European invention.

CHINUA ACHEBE

No Longer at Ease

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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Eugene Aram: A Tale

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Let us suppose the loved one is as madly impelled toward the lover. In a few days, in an hour, nay, in an instant -- for there is such a thing as love at first sight -- this man and woman, two unrelated individuals, who may never have seen each other before, conceive a passion, greater, intenser than all other affections, friendships, and social relations. So great, so intense is it, that the world could crumble to star-dust so long as their souls rushed together. If necessary, they would break all ties, forsake all friends, abandon all blood kin, run away from all moral responsibilities. There can be no discussion.... We see it every day, for love is the most perfectly selfish thing in the universe.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters

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This love is a lichen....
etching on the unmoved rock
the only rune it knows.

SARAH LINDSAY

"Stubbornly", Twigs and Knucklebones

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