LOVE QUOTES XXXVII

quotations about love

We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

SANDRA BERNHARD

attributed, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages

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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


I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

NORMAN MAILER

The Man Who Studied Yoga

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Viewed from the supposed heights of reason, someone else's great love looks rather ordinary.

MINA SAMUELS

"Truly, Madly, Deeply--A Fable Explains Why Love is Crazy", Huffington Post, October 31, 2017


There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.

MAUD LINDSAY

"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories

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Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

The Days Before

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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 made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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Love is love's reward.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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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


Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

HELEN ROWLAND

Inter-Collegiate World

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Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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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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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


O little hour of Love, so wild and sweet!
I gave the world, thy honey-dew to eat;
And now the tear-sown pathway of the dead
Echoes the patter of thy flying feet.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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