LOVE QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about love

Love laughs at locksmiths.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers

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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


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


For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda

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We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


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

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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Old Gorgon Graham

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Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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Love begins at home.

GERMAN PROVERB


Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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Love called, and I could not linger,
But sought the forbidden tryst,
As music follows the finger
Of the dreaming lutanist.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Telepathy"

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It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

JAMES W. HALL

Magic City

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And when two people have loved each other
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies,
stronger, darker, and proud;
how the black cord makes of them a single fabric
that nothing can tear or mend.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"For What Binds Us"

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We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 - 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist noted for his satire. His Caractères, which appeared in 1688, captures the psychological, social, and moral profile of French society of his time.


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


Call us what you will, we are made such by love.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization

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