LOVE QUOTES XXXIII

quotations about love

Love begins at home.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love does not seek equals; it creates them.

STENDAHL

The Red and the Black

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Love dwindles by pairing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Love enters a man through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

POLISH PROVERB

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Love gives impetus and fruitfulness to life and to the journey of faith: without love, both life and faith remain sterile.

POPE FRANCIS

Vatican Radio, October 29, 2017


Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

THE BEATLES

"I'm Looking Through You", Rubber Soul

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 ... letting them flirt with the person next door, because you understand they need to feel like anything is possible.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire
Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"In the Wood of Finvara"

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Love is a stream that will find its course.

JAMAICAN PROVERB


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


Love is a wound that never heals.

GERMAN PROVERB


Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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Love is basically for teenagers, and when it comes to real life for grown-ups, you're far better off with someone who's moderately pleased to see you when you're around, but leaves you in peace when you've got things to do.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love is in that extra hour of sleep you didn't even realize he gave you until you woke up feeling that little bit more human.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Love is in the realization that actually, you're just as excited as your toddler to see him walk through that door at the end of each day. And not just because it means now there are more adults on duty to tackle the troops, but because your person is here and he makes you happy.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


Love is intangible and invisible. If you want to reduce it to materialism, it is a biologically adaptive impulse to ensure the survival of your genes. But nothing makes nonsense of scientific materialism more comprehensively than the mystery of love. All the truly real things are not measurable.

TIM LOTT

"Love is ... a torment and a joy. And it's not for softies", The Guardian, July 22, 2016

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a novelist, travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.