LOVE QUOTES X

quotations about love

love quote

True love begins in heaven's bower,
Unfolds on earth a perfect flower.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Love's Language"

Tags: Ardelia Cotton Barton


Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

DAVID MINKOFF

Oy!

David Minkoff is an alternative healthcare expert, guest lecturer, and writer. He authors two weekly newsletters, the BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter and the Optimum Health Report.

Tags: David Minkoff


What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite.

GRANT ALLEN

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


My love is a bird
Happily singing on my shoulder
Would you like to be the cage
A sweet cage forever?

JINSONG GUO

"R U Still There?", Love Poems N' Quotes by Dr. Guo

Tags: Jinsong Guo


Among all methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as this gust of feverish agitation that sweeps over us from time to time. For then the die is cast, the person whose company we enjoy at that moment is the person we shall henceforward love. It is not even necessary for that person to have attracted us, up till then, more than or even as much as others. All that was needed was that our predilection should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled when -- in this moment of deprivation -- the quest is for the pleasures we enjoyed in his or her company is suddenly replaced by an anxious, torturing need, whose object is the person alone, an absurd, irrational need which the laws of this world make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage -- the insensate, agonizing need to possess exclusively.

MARCEL PROUST

Swann's Way

Tags: Marcel Proust


We do not say of Love that he is myopic. We do not say of Love that he is astigmatic. We say quite simply, Love is blind. We might go further and say, Love is deaf. That would be a profound and obvious truth. We might go further still and say, Love is dumb. But that would be a profound and obvious lie. For love is always an extraordinarily fluent talker.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Christmas Garland

Tags: Max Beerbohm


A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love

Tags: Thich Nhat Hanh


PIGLET: How do you spell 'love'?
POOH: You don't spell it, you feel it.

A. A. MILNE

Winnie the Pooh

Tags: A. A. Milne


Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

BIBLE

John 15:13

Tags: Bible Quotes


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

Tags: Daniel Handler


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

Tags: Hildegard of Bingen


If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

NORA ROBERTS

Blue Smoke

Tags: Nora Roberts


Love will have its day.

U2

"North and South of the River", Staring at the Sun

Tags: U2


Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness

U2

"Love Is Blindness", Achtung Baby

Tags: U2


What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

UMBERTO ECO

The Name of the Rose


Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

BIBLE

Leviticus 19:18

Tags: Bible


Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart

SAPPHO

Without Warning

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


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


Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy.

ALYSON NOEL

Evermore

Tags: Alyson Noel


Some meet love's dreams when kissed by death,
And some again in youth,
But all have felt the quickening breath
Of love's undying truth.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Love's Dreams"

Edwin Leibfreed published several books of poetry, including A Garland of Verse (1910), A Soliloquy of Life (1915), and The Man of a Thousand Loves (1932).

Tags: Edwin Leibfreed