LOVE QUOTES IX

quotations about love

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Life is like a pipe, and love is the fuse.

THEOPHILUS MARZIALS

"Chelsea"


Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin,
As sweet as clover-honey in its cell;
Love is the password whereby souls get in
To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"What Love Is"


Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness

U2

"Love Is Blindness", Achtung Baby

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Not all men are worthy of love.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

ANNE CARSON

The Beauty of the Husband

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Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

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.


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


We do not say of Love that he is myopic. We do not say of Love that he is astigmatic. We say quite simply, Love is blind. We might go further and say, Love is deaf. That would be a profound and obvious truth. We might go further still and say, Love is dumb. But that would be a profound and obvious lie. For love is always an extraordinarily fluent talker.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Christmas Garland

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

BIBLE

Leviticus 19:18

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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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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

LILY TOMLIN

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, Jan. 19, 1938

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss,
Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures;
But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Revenge

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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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Sexual ecstasy usually arises among dyads, or groups of two, but the ritual ecstasy of "primitives" emerged within groups generally composed of thirty or more participants. Thanks to psychology and the psychological concerns of Western culture generally, we have a rich language for describing the emotions drawing one person to another--from the most fleeting sexual attraction, to ego-dissolving love, all the way to the destructive force of obsession. What we lack is any way of describing and understanding the "love" that may exist among dozens of people at a time; and it is this kind of love that is expressed in ecstatic ritual.

BARBARA EHRENREICH

Dancing in the Streets

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I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy.

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

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True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

APHRA BEHN

The History of the Nun

Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was an English playwright, poet, and novelist from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

UMBERTO ECO

The Island of the Day Before

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