LOVE QUOTES XIX

quotations about love

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Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.

FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD

Robert Browning


If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

BRUCE LEE

The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee

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Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Love is anterior to Life"

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You can fall in love with life, you can fall in love with yourself and with those around you. Tell the people important to you that you love them, and most importantly treat them like you do. Don't take love for granted because it's what binds the world together.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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I've read more than a hundred books
Seeing love mentioned many thousand times
But despite all the places I've looked
It's still no clearer
I'm still no nearer
The meaning of love

DEPECHE MODE

"The Meaning of Love", A Broken Frame


Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Eragon


Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life.
In just a glance, down here on magic street,
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame,
Very pretty, often hot and fierce
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew


The weight of love
Has buoyed me up
Till my head
Knocks against the sky.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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There is no love that is not an echo.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia


Love is not some mushy feeling for your parents that you are born with, or a romanticized sexuality you learn from magazines. It is action. If you know what love is you can never be in doubt about whether someone loves you or you love someone.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Fury of Rachel Monette

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If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

KURT VONNEGUT

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons


The poorest lives some little blossoms bring
To deck Love's altar in the days of spring.

ELSA BARKER

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

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O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Tamerlane"

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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Autobiography of Values

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Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.

ANACREON

"Ode XXIX", Odes

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

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Wisdom and love have nothing to do with one another. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- you'll stick your finger in anything.

ROBERT ALTMAN

attributed, Esquire the Meaning of Life: Wisdom, Humor, and Damn Good Advice from 64 Extraordinary Lives

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