LOVE QUOTES III

quotations about love

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It is difficult here to give definite examples, but everybody knows how, in the subtle psychology of Falling in Love, there are involved innumerable minor elements, physical and mental, which strike us exactly because of their absolute adaptation to form with ourselves an adequate union. Of course we do not definitely seek out and discover such qualities; instinct works far more intuitively than that; but we find at last, by subsequent observation, how true and how trustworthy were its immediate indications. That is to say, those men do so who were wise enough or fortunate enough to follow the earliest promptings of their own hearts, and not to be ashamed of that divinest and deepest of human intuitions, love at first sight.

GRANT ALLEN

"Falling in Love", Falling in Love and Other Essays


At night the grackle Love will start
To shriek and shrill,
Nor will he once be still
Till he has wide awake the backward heart.
So selfish Love,
Go hush;
Feathers and claws take off
Or seek some bush.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

"Three Valentines"

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Lust is a sprightly servant,
Gallant where wines are poured;
Love is a bitter master,
Love is an iron lord.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT

Young Adventure

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Not all men are worthy of love.

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents

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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

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.


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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We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.

DAVID SEDARIS

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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Love can be a terrible curse. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr

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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"


As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.

APHRA BEHN

The Fair Jilt

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

ALFRED TENNYSON

"In Memoriam"

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Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.

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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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If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The Marriage Plot


Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

TONI MORRISON

Paradise


O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!

THOMAS DEKKER

Blurt, Master Constable

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

APHRA BEHN

The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock

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.


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 can change a person the way a parent can change a baby -- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

ITALIAN PROVERB