LOVE QUOTES XXX

quotations about love

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Depression and the Body

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Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond

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Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Ghost


Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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In a love affair, there is usually one person who loves, and the other qui se laisse aimer; it is only in later days, perhaps, when the treasures of love are spent, and the kind hand cold which ministered them, that we remember how tender it was; how soft to soothe; how eager to shield; how ready to support and caress. The ears my no longer hear which would have received our words of thanks so delightedly. Let us hope those fruits of love, though tardy, are yet not all too late; and though we bring our tribute of reverence and gratitude, it may be to a gravestone, there is an acceptance even there for the stricken heart's oblation of fond remorse, contrite memories, and pious tears.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Newcomes


There were often times when I wondered if there was anyone out there for me at all. I would have lengthy chats with friends as we lamented about love and life, but my end conclusion would be that I, or anyone for that matter, had to remain hopeful. Whether or not there was someone for me, having a negative mindset about love wasn’t going to help me find love. I had to believe that there is a special someone out there for everyone and it was by being positive and being my best self that I would attract that person, whoever he might be.

CELESTINE CHUA

"How I Found My Soulmate, Part 1: My Journey in Love", Personal Excellence

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Love is ... letting them flirt with the person next door, because you understand they need to feel like anything is possible.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

ROBERT FROST

The Master Speed

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Love does not seek equals; it creates them.

STENDAHL

The Red and the Black

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Dec. 21, 1939

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Love is the power that can anchor and transform both our conflicts and our compromises, as we take firm and steady steps toward big and worthy goals. Although we've banished talk of love from our public discourse, we need to place it back where it belongs -- front and center, right alongside high standards and expectations.

KEN WAGNER

"Back to School -- New Statewide Offerings Include Love", Westerly Sun, August 31, 2016


With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down

SAPPHO

With His Venom

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


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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So this love still hold true
now what you gonna do
I won't give up on you
Between the moon and sun
this life is never done
I won't give up on you
Set up set up set up my love
I wont give up on you

TREVOR HALL

"Moon/Sun"


They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.

DANIEL HANDLER

Adverbs

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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


If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond


It is certain there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated. Human nature would sink into deadness and lethargy, if not quickened with some active principle; and as for all others, whether ambition, envy, or avarice, which are apt to possess the mind in the absence of this passion, it must be allowed that they have greater pains, without the compensation of such exquisite pleasures as those we find in love.

JOSEPH ADDISON

"The Passion of Love", Essays Moral and Humorous

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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


To love is to will the good of the other.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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