LOVE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about love

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

BRET HARTE

"Two Men of Sandy Bar"

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Love's language everywhere is known.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"


My Love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair,
Upon Impossibility.

ANDREW MARVELL

The Definition of Love

Tags: Andrew Marvell


We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization


The sweetness of human love is to be compared, therefore, to the sweetness of a flower, whose glowing colors and voluptuous fragrance are intended by Nature to attract the winged insects, whose visits are necessary for the fertilization of the seed. The color fades, the flower falls, the perfume vanishes, death soon follows after; but Nature is not mocked.

ARTHUR FOLEY WINNINGTON-INGRAM

"Love's Nature", Thoughts on Love and Death


Love -- thou art deep --
I cannot cross thee --
But, were there Two
Instead of One --
Rower and Yacht -- some sov'reign Summer --
Who knows -- but we'd reach the Sun?

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love thou art high"

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;
Love is a poignant and accustomed pain.
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder;
It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

JOYCE KILMER

"In Memory"

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Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

HELEN ROWLAND

Inter-Collegiate World


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 is a concept none of us really understand but yet we try to define it in the small square of accepted norms. When two people love each other and want to be together in more than one way, gender, society, age, caste, creed stops mattering.

SHRIYA JOSHI

"This Short Film About Freedom To Love Is Our Gift To You On Independence Day", Storypick, August 12, 2016


Love is in that moment when you're in separate rooms trying to get the kids to sleep, and you unexpectedly get butterflies in your stomach because you're excited that you get to hang out with your best friend soon. It's in that conversation on the couch in your sweatpants eating Pad Thai out of a box while you exchange stories about things your children did and replay videos of them being adorable even though they've only been asleep for five minutes.

RASHA RUSHDY

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


Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations

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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Down by the Salley Gardens", Crossways

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

ST. AUGUSTINE

On the Mystical Body of Christ

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What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


Such as are excited by the gentler influence of Love assume more of affection in their looks, sink their voice into greater softness, and manifest in their gestures greater nobleness of soul.

XENOPHON

The Banquet

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Love is a confidence trick, that's all. It's Nature's way of suckering a mammal with a brain and a long, vulnerable gestation period into reproducing. Humans can think, so ordinary animal-grade maternal instinct wouldn't be enough to make human women go through all that, not if they stopped and thought about what's involved. So you have love. It's a substitute for rational thought.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Love is the most destructive weapon of all, the only problem being how to contain and channel it into something that can be spanned, aimed and loosed.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair