LOVE QUOTES XLIX

quotations about love

Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Search for Love"

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".


The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion

Tags: Dan Simmons


The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from it's surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs


There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

Tags: David Baldacci


He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows
All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

ELSA BARKER

He Who Knows Love

Tags: Elsa Barker


If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation"

Tags: Emma Goldman


At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"


We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept--our own selves--that we love.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

Tags: Fernando Pessoa


In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Love and faith are seen in works.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love does not rust.

GERMAN PROVERB


Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter

Tags: Graham Greene


You're not sick, you're just in love.

IRVING BERLIN

"You're Just in Love"

Tags: Irving Berlin


Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure's inventions are soon exhausted.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

Tags: James Baldwin


Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

JAMES REDFIELD

The Celestine Prophecy


For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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.


What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Powerbook


For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

"Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart", Glamour


True love turns words and feelings into actions.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You