LOVE QUOTES VI

quotations about love

Ursula K. Le Guin quote

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Sandman, #65

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Paris Review, spring 1977

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

JOHN DONNE

The Anagram

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Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss,
Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures;
But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Revenge

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Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"A Little Girl Lost", Songs of Experience


Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision--a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

TERESA MEDEIROS

The Vampire Who Loved Me

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Every little thing wants to be loved.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Secret Life of Bees

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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

RITA MAE BROWN

Full Cry


The utopia of love is completion to the point of stillness. The ideal act of love is to contain all.

JOHN BERGER

Keeping a Rendezvous

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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party and is remembered for his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.

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As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Pendennis


Love's a bully, pushing and shoving
In the belly of a woman.
Heavy rhythm taking over
To stick together a man and a woman
Stick together man and a woman
Stick together.

U2

"Do You Feel Loved", Pop


Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Elmer Gantry

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I would rather have eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.

ROBERT TIZON

attributed, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out


In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

MICHAEL PALMER

The Fifth Vial

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Love is the garden of the young.

HERBERT KRETZMER

"A Heart Full of Love (Reprise)", Les Miserables


No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, Sep. 30, 1779

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