LOVE QUOTES XXXIII

quotations about love


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What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
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My Heart Laid Bare


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Tags: Charles Baudelaire


What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".

Tags: D. H. Lawrence


When love grows diseas'd, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling'ring and consumptive passion.

GEORGE ETHEREGE

The Man of Mode

Tags: George Etherege


When we fall in love, we hope--both egotistically and altruistically--that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

JULIAN BARNES

Nothing to Be Frightened Of


When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


When you find love you'll realize love was always there in one way or another.

SONYA MATEJKO

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


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"

Tags: William Faulkner


With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down

SAPPHO

With His Venom

Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Although most of her poetry is now lost, she was regarded in ancient times as one of the greatest lyric poets and given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet."


You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

FRED ROGERS

attributed, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor


A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

PABLO NERUDA

Morning XII

Tags: Pablo Neruda


All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase--"I love you."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Offshore Pirate"

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Love

Tags: Samuel Taylor Coleridge


As your lover describes you, so you are.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary


Each act of love is a demonstration of the powerful right use of the heart, the example of our oneness of loving our brother as ourself. It is everything that transforms the present moment into love's miracle. It is you and me in resonance vibrating ever forward with love.

MELANIE LUTZ

"Love is Meant to be put Into Right Use Full Ness", BeliefNet, November 2, 2017


Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

Tags: John Milton


I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

NORMAN MAILER

The Man Who Studied Yoga

Tags: Norman Mailer


I felt I had stepped into something big and splendid, as if I had been a caterpillar walking into the heart of a red rose. I felt prim and small and petty. Until then I had never known what love meant.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Simon the Jester