LOVE QUOTES VII

quotations about love

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O, wicked love ... that has so many unnamed components.

ANNE RICE

Beauty's Punishment


LOVE.--A sentiment we all entertain for ourselves, and occasionally imagine others entertain for us.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke


Some meet love's dreams when kissed by death,
And some again in youth,
But all have felt the quickening breath
Of love's undying truth.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Love's Dreams"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).

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Deep Love is slow of speech and void of art;
Silence and timid tears reveal his heart.
But shallow Love is ever eloquent
To mouth his meagre passion -- and depart.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue"

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Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

FRANK LAWLIS

Mending the Broken Bond


Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, Sep. 30, 1779

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Love is the garden of the young.

HERBERT KRETZMER

"A Heart Full of Love (Reprise)", Les Miserables


Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

HERMANN HESSE

Peter Camenzind

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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers--roses and lilies--which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

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Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You

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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Only love makes fruitful the soul.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond

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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Blue Moon


Love is the wild card of existence.

RITA MAE BROWN

In Her Day


Please do not think for a second, as some people do, that Love is primarily an affair of the emotions. It is not: it never ought to be. It is an affair of the will: it is an act of choice.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts

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If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone.
What kind of tide can an ocean bestow
if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

SARAH LINDSAY

"Aunt Lydia Practices Loving Komodo Dragons", Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower


Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

SEAN O'FAOLAIN

Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 13, 1966