LOVE QUOTES II

quotations about love

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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

APHRA BEHN

The Younger Brother

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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Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

notes, Queen Mab


Love is the key-note of the universe--
The theme, the melody.

HENRY ABBEY

"The Troubadour"

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All you need is love.

THE BEATLES

"All You Need Is Love", Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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Love is not a delicate toying,
A slim and shimmering mesh;
It is two souls wrenched into one,
Two bodies made one flesh.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT

Young Adventure

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Everything is a mystery with Love--his arrows, his quiver, his torch, his childlike appearance. It's not the work of one day to understand the breadth of his science.

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark
Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

GERALD MASSEY

"To My Wife"

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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary has been called "the most brilliant work of satire written in America," and his story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature.

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To have, to hold, to love and caress
Is all we can ask from above
For the road that leads to happiness
Is the road that leads to love

IRVING BERLIN

"The Road that Leads to Love"

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What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Confessio Philosophi

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1 July 1646 - 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher, mathematician, and logician. His most prominent accomplishment was the development of differential and integral calculus independently of Sir Isaac Newton's contemporaneous achievements.

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

JAMES BALDWIN

"In Search of a Majority"

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We often weep beneath Love's cross,
But when she calls we her obey.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Guide-Board"


You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body

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Now do I know that Love is blind, for I
Can see no beauty on this beauteous earth,
No life, no light, no hopefulness, no mirth,
Pleasure nor purpose, when thou art not nigh.
Thy absence exiles sunshine from the sky,
Seres Spring's maturity, checks Summer's birth,
Leaves linnet's pipe as sad as plover's cry,
And makes me in abundance find but dearth.
But when thy feet flutter the dark, and thou
With orient eyes dawnest on my distress,
Suddenly sings a bird on every bough,
The heavens expand, the earth grows less and less,
The ground is buoyant as the ether now,
And all looks lovely in thy loveliness.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"Love's Blindness", Lyrical Poems

Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913) was an English poet and journalist who succeeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Songs of Experience

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If I give my heart to you
I must be sure
From the very start
That you would love me more than her

THE BEATLES

"If I Fell", A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in previously unheard-of ways. The band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock.

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Love is the kiss
in the quiet nest
while the leaves are trembling,
mirrored in the water.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

The Butterfly's Evil Spell

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam"

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Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"A Little Girl Lost", Songs of Experience


Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

WASHINGTON IRVING

attributed, Golden Gleams of Thought: From the Words of Leading Orators

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