LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

AMY HEMPEL

"The Dog of the Marriage"

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Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"The Buried Life"

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

letter, May 14, 1904


Love for those too easily won does not last long.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love is a wound that never heals.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love enters a man through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

POLISH PROVERB

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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

SWEDISH PROVERB

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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

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Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don't be afraid to disappoint.

ANONYMOUS


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"


Love gives impetus and fruitfulness to life and to the journey of faith: without love, both life and faith remain sterile.

POPE FRANCIS

Vatican Radio, October 29, 2017


If they substituted the word "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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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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Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Looking Glass War

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