LOVE QUOTES XIII

quotations about love

love quote

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Their Eyes Were Watching God


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Wind, Sand and Stars

Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupery


To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.

CHRIS SEIDMAN

Little Buddy

Tags: Chris Seidman


To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death

Tags: Woody Allen


Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections


In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

Tags: Cyril Connolly


If I fell in love with you
Would you promise to be true
And help me understand
'Cause I've been in love before
And I found that love was more
Than just holding hands

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.


Love: noun. The force that allows us to overcome our seemingly irreconcilable differences and empowers us to experience the peace of one-ness.

BURT GERSHATER

"Inner Heroes", Arizona Daily Sun, August 20, 2018


I love the one who punishes me well.

ANNE RICE

Beauty's Release

Tags: Anne Rice


In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

EMILE ZOLA

L'Argent

Tags: Emile Zola


Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


There's nothing deader than a dead love.

LEONA HELMSLEY

Playboy, Nov. 1990

Tags: Leona Helmsley


Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

Tags: Glen Duncan


We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

PABLO NERUDA

"The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light"


There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

Tags: Anne Enright


Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, no one better deserves our attention, than that love, which arises betwixt the sexes, as well on account of its force and violence, as those curious principles of philosophy, for which it affords us an uncontestable argument. It is plain, that this affection, in its most natural state, is derived from the conjunction of three different impressions or passions, viz. The pleasing sensation arising from beauty; the bodily appetite for generation; and a generous kindness or good-will. The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. The question is how the bodily appetite is excited by it.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love Betwixt the Sexes", A Treatise of Human Nature

Tags: David Hume


Love is always having to say you're sorry.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR

"Love is ...", The Independent, February 15, 2016


Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

MAYA ANGELOU

attributed, The Power of Hope

Tags: Maya Angelou