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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, "Essay on Christianity"
- You can run from love
- And if it's really love it will find you
- Catch you by the heel
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
- Love needs its martyrs
- Needs its sacrifices
- They live for your beauty
- And pay for their vices
- Love will be the death of
- My lonely soul brothers
- But their spirits shall live on in
- The hearts of all lovers
DEPECHE MODE, "The Love Thieves"
Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.
- All love is sweet,
- Given or returned. Common as light is love,
- And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
- Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air,
- It makes the reptile equal to the God;
- They who inspire it most are fortunate,
- As I am now; but those who feel it most
- Are happier still.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
APHRA BEHN, The History of the Nun
- Like thunder needs rain
- Like a preacher needs pain
- Like tongues of flame
- Like a sweet stain
- Need your love
- I need your love
When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town.
U2, "When Love Comes to Town"
- Love's very pain is sweet,
- But its reward is in the world divine
- Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Epipsychidion
- You say love is a temple, love a higher law
- Love is a temple, love the higher law.
- You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
- And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.
- Strangelove
- Strange highs and strange lows
- Strangelove
- That's how my love goes
- Strangelove
- Will you give it to me
- Will you take the pain
- I will give to you
- Again and again
- And will you return it
DEPECHE MODE, "Strangelove"
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHY, A Bit O' Love
- Love's a bully, pushing and shoving
- In the belly of a woman.
- Heavy rhythm taking over
- To stick together a man and a woman
- Stick together man and a woman
- Stick together.
Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
BERTOLT BRECHT, "Love of Whom?"
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit is Rich
- I've read more than a hundred books
- Seeing love mentioned many thousand times
- But despite all the places I've looked
- It's still no clearer
- I'm still no nearer
- The meaning of love
DEPECHE MODE, "The Meaning of Love"
The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
SUSANNA MOORE, The Big Girls
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHY, Fraternity
- This is the morning of our love
- It's just the dawning of our love
- I feel you
- Your heart it sings
- I feel you
- The joy it brings
- Where heaven waits
- Those golden gates
- And back again
- You take me to
- And lead me through oblivion
DEPECHE MODE, "I Feel You"
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