LOVE QUOTES XXXIII

quotations about love

It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

JAMES W. HALL

Magic City

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Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked

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When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch

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When we fall in love, we hope--both egotistically and altruistically--that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

JULIAN BARNES

Nothing to Be Frightened Of


If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly


No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Hours

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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"The Advantages of Having One Leg", On Lying in Bed and Other Essays


To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions

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Love is love's reward.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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Love is a very difficult -- occupation. You got to work at it, man. It ain't a thing every Tom, Dick and Harry has got a true aptitude for.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Period of Adjustment


There were often times when I wondered if there was anyone out there for me at all. I would have lengthy chats with friends as we lamented about love and life, but my end conclusion would be that I, or anyone for that matter, had to remain hopeful. Whether or not there was someone for me, having a negative mindset about love wasn’t going to help me find love. I had to believe that there is a special someone out there for everyone and it was by being positive and being my best self that I would attract that person, whoever he might be.

CELESTINE CHUA

"How I Found My Soulmate, Part 1: My Journey in Love", Personal Excellence

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Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

BIBLE

Proverbs 10:12

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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Ranthorpe


When people fall in love they not only change themselves, but in their eyes the whole world changes. They may have been commonplace or dull before. But once in love they take on a strange brightness. And however uninteresting and dreary the world may have seemed to them, it at once becomes a fairyland.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Love", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities