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It is not love that he feels for me. It is more like a constant resentment that has become such a habit to him that to have it removed, like an aching tooth, brings him no relief.
PHILIPPA GREGORY, The Boleyn Inheritance
- If Love his moment overstay,
- Hatred's swift repulsions play.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Visit
The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT, "Miss Harriet"
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
Sex is the joining of two bodies; love is the joining of two souls.
GARY D. CHAPMAN, Making Love
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
MICHAEL PALMER, The Fifth Vial
A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
THOMAS HARDY, The Return of the Native
- Love he comes and Love he tarries
- Just as fate or fancy carries;
- Longest stays, when sorest chidden;
- Laughs and flies, when press'd and bidden.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, Freedom and Love
- Love's a fire that needs renewal
- Of fresh beauty for its fuel.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, Freedom and Love
Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
- If with love thy heart has burned;
- If thy love is unreturned;
- Hide thy grief within thy breast,
- Though it tear thee unexpressed;
- For when love has once departed
- From the eyes of the false-hearted,
- And one by one has torn off quite
- The bandages of purple light;
- Though thou wert the loveliest
- Form the soul had ever dressed,
- Thou shalt seem, in each reply,
- A vixen to his altered eye;
- Thy softest pleadings seem too bold,
- Thy praying lute will seem to scold;
- Though thou kept the straightest road,
- Yet thou errest far and broad.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, To Rhea
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
- Love on his errand bound to go
- Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
- Where way is none, 't will creep and wind
- And eat through Alps its home to find.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Love
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
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering Something Beautiful for God.
MOTHER TERESA, A Gift for God
- When you love someone
- you have to let them go.
- It's the only way to keep them.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, Seasons of Your Heart
- Love abounds in all things,
- excels from the depths to beyond the stars,
- is lovingly disposed to all things.
- She has given the king on high
- the kiss of peace.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, "Caritas abundat"
Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER, The Reed of God
Every little thing wants to be loved.
SUE MONK KIDD, The Secret Life of Bees
Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT, "Was it a Dream?"
- Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
- They lift their heavy lids, and look;
- And, lo, what one sweet page can teach
- They read with joy, then shut the book.
COVENTRY PATMORE, "The Revelation"
- We outgrow love like other things
- And put it in the drawer,
- Till it an antique fashion shows
- Like costumes grandsires wore.
EMILY DICKINSON, "We Outgrow Love Like Other Things"
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