LOVE QUOTES LIV

quotations about love

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Plague of Doves

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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Dust Tracks on a Road


Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance, Dance, Dance

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People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

STEPHEN KING

Joyland

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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

ROBERT FULGHUM

True Love

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.

DANISH PROVERB


Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Words of Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

"Mozart's 'Figaro' Flies Thru Detroit!", America Jr., November 14, 2017


I've heard it called a Cinderella story, I've heard it called magic. But it's not magic, it's love. And when love is true from the heart, nothing magic about it.

BILL MAHON

"Love From the Ashes", KWTX, November 13, 2017


In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked at.

KOBO ABE

The Box Man

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You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys and that's why love is stronger. It builds.

PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

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The true coronation of character is love. The true test of love is self-sacrifice. He knows not how to love who knows not how to suffer for love's sake. The love that costs nothing is worth--what it costs.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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Love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Christmas Train

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Love is a word from the old poems you read. In real life there is no love. Men come together like apes and birds. It is sweet sometimes to play with a woman, but the wind blows and there is an end of it.

VICKI BAUM

Love and Death in Bali

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Yes, life is but a waste,
A cheerless pathway, where
No healthy fruit allures the taste,
No flowerets balm the air,
If Love, the wild rose, ne'er luxuriates there.

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN

"Love"

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To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering Something Beautiful for God.

MOTHER TERESA

A Gift for God

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Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach
They read with joy, then shut the book.

COVENTRY PATMORE

"The Revelation"

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