LOVE QUOTES XXXVII

quotations about love

Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

ROBERT BELL

The Ladder of Gold

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Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the VARIETY of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love MUST be multiform, else it is just tyranny, just death.

D. H. LAWRENCE

The Ladybird

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".


To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse


Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah

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No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

APHRA BEHN

The Rover

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.


There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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If they substituted the word "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

ROALD DAHL

"The Heart of a Mouse", The Witches

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Treatise on the Love of God


This love is a lichen....
etching on the unmoved rock
the only rune it knows.

SARAH LINDSAY

"Stubbornly", Twigs and Knucklebones

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The pain of love is how slowly it dies.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil

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