LOVE QUOTES V

quotations about love

love quote

All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

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.


Near even a candle, the visible heat.
So it is with a person in love.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"The Visible Heat"


The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love
I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through oblivion

DEPECHE MODE

"I Feel You", Songs of Faith and Devotion


It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

A Bit O' Love


It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

RITA MAE BROWN

Full Cry


You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

PAT BENATAR

"Hell is for Children"

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You can't love people into who you need them to be.

JULIE MITCHELL

"Love is not written in the stars", Corsicana Daily Sun, November 6, 2017


Love is ... a cloak of suburban guilt.

EVA WISEMAN

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


Love is ... taking years to unpack their neuroses, then using the space you've made to store your own.

EVA WISEMAN

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


It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Empire

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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Love's a bully, pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman.
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together a man and a woman
Stick together man and a woman
Stick together.

U2

"Do You Feel Loved", Pop


Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

VICTOR HUGO

Les Miserables

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831).

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Love had a thousand shapes.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.... You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

JOHN LENNON

ATV interview, Dec. 2, 1969

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Sandman, #65

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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