LOVE QUOTES XII
quotations about love
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Love makes its votaries wretched beings whose souls are not within their own keeping. Therefore man demands to be free to love in order to become cured of love and woman demands to be free to love in order to live for love: and herein the calamitous disparity.
MARIAN COX
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"The Fools of Love", The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays
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This love, this mortal love, is of their own making ... the thing we did not intend, foresee or sanction. How then should it not fascinate us?... It is as if a fractious child had been handed a few timber shavings and a bucket of mud to keep him quiet only for him promptly to erect a cathedral.... Within the precincts of this consecrated house they afford each other sanctuary, excuse each other their failings, their sweats and smells, their lies and subterfuges, above all their ineradicable self-obsession. This is what baffles us, how they wriggled out of our grasp and somehow became free to forgive each other for all that they are not.
JOHN BANVILLE
The Infinities
Love's tendrils round the heart doth twine,
As round the oak doth cling the vine.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Love's Language"
Once upon a time in absolute reality, a very handsome guy in his late twenties approached me at a conference in Malaysia that I was attending as a speaker. He sat next to me and with a strong gaze said sweetly, "Ma'am, I am planning a perfect crime and I need your help." I replied almost choking on my pasta giggling and mustered a, "Well, what help?" He replied with a smoldering intensity which could give competition to Shah Rukh Khan with "I want to steal your heart." I was on floor laughing and if not anything else I was impressed with his confidence, charm, and the honesty in his eyes. I did not help him in the 'love crime' but interestingly, that instance indeed made me believe that someday I would meet my soul mate just like that and also I would, with utmost sincerity from the bottom of my lungs, kidneys and other organs, help him in stealing my heart forever and ever. THAT is the magic of love.
AMISHA SETHI
"Live is all around you!", Deccan Chronicle, February 14, 2016
He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
UMBERTO ECO
Foucault's Pendulum
To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.
CHRIS SEIDMAN
Little Buddy
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.
WOODY ALLEN
Love and Death
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Brothers Karamazov
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE
The Ecstasy
Life is too short to not spend it with the people you love, I murmured. Did you just read an Instagram caption? my boyfriend asked. I huffed. I said that it was a midnight musing--not an Instagram caption. But it's true. To me, at least. From reading children's books to books about death and illness and meaning and regret, I gather that this abstraction--love!--that poets wax on about and singers warble on about and writers scribble on about is what matters most. It isn't money or material items or career or achievements or resumé markers or positions or charm. It's the simple, deceptively simple! equation of existence: to love and to be loved.
LU
"To Love and To Be Loved", coolpeppermint, June 8, 2018
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.
Ah, how sweet it is to love!
Ah, how gay is young Desire!
And what pleasing pains we prove
When we first approach Love's fire!
JOHN DRYDEN
Tyrannic Love
Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live!"
EMILY DICKINSON
"While It Is Alive"
If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO
Day Watch
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.
THICH NHAT HANH
Teachings on Love
In love, all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. In love loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column and gifts are added to gains.
SWAMI ABHEDANANDA
"Realisation in Love", The Free Press Journal, August 21, 2018
There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.
ANNE ENRIGHT
The Gathering
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf