LOVE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about love

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

FRED ROGERS

attributed, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor


Love subdues everything, except the felon heart.

FRENCH PROVERB


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Advantages of Having One Leg", On Lying in Bed and Other Essays


It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy


I sought for love on the highway,
For love unselfish and pure,
And found it in good deeds blooming,
Tho' often in haunts obscure.

HENRY ABBEY

"Trailing Arbutus"

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

JACK LONDON

The Valley of the Moon


Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB


The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

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.


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


Even kindergarten love is hard work.

JEFF HICKS

"Kindergarten love flourishes, 50 years later", The Record, September 3, 2018


Being in love is an elaborate state of anticipation for the continual exchanging of certain kinds of gifts. The gifts can range from a glance to the offering of the entire self. But the gifts must be gifts: they cannot be claimed. One has no rights as a lover--except the right to anticipate what the other wishes to give.

JOHN BERGER

G. John Berger

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Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always wild!

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

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Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

journal, Apr. 4, 1831

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In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Cerulean Sins

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Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017