LOVE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about love

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When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


The moment you love, you lose your freedom, for the simple reason that you have to take others into account. You have to worry about them, empathise with them and feel some responsibility for them. Sociopaths are the only truly free people. That is why freedom is highly overrated.

TIM LOTT

"Love is ... a torment and a joy. And it's not for softies", The Guardian, July 22, 2016

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a novelist, travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.


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

THOMAS CAMPBELL

Freedom and Love

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Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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When they speak of it, this love of theirs, they speak as of a kind of grand mal brought on catastrophically by a bacillus unknown to science but everywhere present in the air about us, like the tuberculosis spore, and to which all but the coldest constitutions are susceptible.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance


To me, it's pretty simple--love is way too precious to sanction.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Samuel Johnson on SSM", 9Honey, November 14, 2017


Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid


All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander

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Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Garden of Epicurus

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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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I used to be all about the grand gestures. The big demonstrations of love. The utterly romantic, perfectly crafted moments that take your breath away. It's funny though, because after almost ten years, and two kids, later, I've come to see love and romance in a whole different light. And I can honestly say that this year, for the first time, I've made peace with the fact that we aren't buying each other the obligatory chocolates or flowers. I'm actually okay with it. I promise. Husband dearest, in case you're wondering if this is a trap, it isn't.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016