LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

Once you love someone it's like cancer. It spreads and spreads until it eats you up.

ANN WUEHLER

Interviews With Loneliness

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

The Rector of Justin

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Our love is about small days to build memories upon, simple adventures we experience together.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


Since to be loved endures,
To love is wise.

ROBERT BRIDGES

Since to be Loved Endures

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Singing oh no no
Let it go
Love can take your heart
Throw it out of control
Saying oh no no
Let it go
My love yeah she's a hurricane
I pray through the storm

CREATURE CANYON

"Hurricane"


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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That adoration which a young man gives to a woman whom he feels to be greater and better than himself, is hardly distinguishable from religious feeling. What deep and worthy love is so? whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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The beautiful thing about being with the one you love is promising to do it forever.

COLLEEN TEMPLE

"Our love is big. Bigger-than-my-stretch-marks big.", Huffington Post, March 30, 2016


The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

SUSANNA MOORE

The Big Girls

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The loves of men but vary in degrees--
They find no new expression for the flame.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Isaura"


The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

PHILIP ROTH

The Dying Animal

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The single greatest predictor of happiness and success in life is a healthy love relationship.

PATRICIA LOVE

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The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD

Robert Browning

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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


Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


There is hope for all the colored people in this country while one white woman can love one colored man.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

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