LOVE QUOTES XXVII

quotations about love

Love laughs at locksmiths.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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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 needs its martyrs
Needs its sacrifices
They live for your beauty
And pay for their vices
Love will be the death of
My lonely soul brothers
But their spirits shall live on in
The hearts of all lovers

DEPECHE MODE

"The Love Thieves", Ultra

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Love subdues everything, except the felon heart.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love was a country he knew nothing about.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Women Writers Talk


So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"On Love", Essays and Letters

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The moment you love, you lose your freedom, for the simple reason that you have to take others into account. You have to worry about them, empathise with them and feel some responsibility for them. Sociopaths are the only truly free people. That is why freedom is highly overrated.

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.


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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To love is to will the good of the other.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

WILLIAM FAULKNER

"Beyond"

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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

AMY HEMPEL

"The Dog of the Marriage"

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Burning with tender love is not really an image for someone who has warmed mercury over a gentle flame. In slowness, gentleness, and hope we have the hidden force of moral perfection and of material transmutation.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Formation of the Scientific Mind

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Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals

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Even kindergarten love is hard work.

JEFF HICKS

"Kindergarten love flourishes, 50 years later", The Record, September 3, 2018


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


Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love!

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Love can make any place agreeable.

ARABIAN PROVERB


Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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