LOVE QUOTES XXXVI

quotations about love

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

MARTIN LUTHER

Sermon XI, A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin


There's love, sweet love, for one and all--
For love is best for great and small.

MAUD LINDSAY

"Inside the Garden Gate", Mother Stories

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Love is the endless verb; a relationship encompassing the ultimate in holiness. Love does conquer death because in its moment lived it's eternal in nature. Love gives us our purpose, and is our ultimate memorial.

MITCHELL HURVITZ

"Perspectives: Love is tangible presence of God", Greenwich Time, October 27, 2017


Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

NORA ROBERTS

Blood Brothers

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Love is all around you and all you have to do is claim it.

PATRICIA LOVE

The Truth About Love

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Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


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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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Dec. 20, 1810

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True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors,
fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion


Why the pull of sexual attraction to someone who is unfamiliar, whose allure as Horace marked, portends a war with one's self? As we'll consider, the object of sexual desire has a different constitution from the focus of personal love. With sexual love, there is an emphasis upon touch and kinesthesia that alters the whole/part structure of objects. It brings with it a shift in temporality as well as makes the pleasure of repetitive sexual scenarios curiously new and unique.

PETER HADREAS

A Phenomenology of Love and Hate

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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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It is not love that he feels for me. It is more like a constant resentment that has become such a habit to him that to have it removed, like an aching tooth, brings him no relief.

PHILIPPA GREGORY

The Boleyn Inheritance


Love enters a man through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

POLISH PROVERB

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Love isn't love until it's past.

PRINCE

"Sometimes It Snows in April", Parade

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Love on his errand bound to go
Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
Where way is none, 't will creep and wind
And eat through Alps its home to find.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Love


I used to be all about the grand gestures. The big demonstrations of love. The utterly romantic, perfectly crafted moments that take your breath away. It's funny though, because after almost ten years, and two kids, later, I've come to see love and romance in a whole different light. And I can honestly say that this year, for the first time, I've made peace with the fact that we aren't buying each other the obligatory chocolates or flowers. I'm actually okay with it. I promise. Husband dearest, in case you're wondering if this is a trap, it isn't.

RASHA RUSHDY

"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016


The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

ROALD DAHL

"The Heart of a Mouse", The Witches

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