LOVE QUOTES XVIII
quotations about love
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.
JULIAN BARNES
Talking It Over
Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.
DAVID RICHO
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
JEAN ANOUILH
L'homme et la mort dans l'histoire
Love kills.
EDNA BUCHANAN
Love Kills
Love must be first and last, the part, the whole;
Must fill the human void as ocean fills
Its broadest channels, ancient as the hills,
And slightest shell o'er which its waters roll.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN
"Love"
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
DAN SIMMONS
The Fall of Hyperion
Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.
FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD
Robert Browning
Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one.
PABLO NERUDA
O Magazine, Feb. 2007
The truth about love is that it is ever changing. Throughout the life of a relationship, individuals change and life itself changes. Love has to be flexible enough to accommodate new information, new roles, and new ways of loving one another.
PATRICIA LOVE
The Truth About Love
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Suddenly Last Summer
You can fall in love with life, you can fall in love with yourself and with those around you. Tell the people important to you that you love them, and most importantly treat them like you do. Don't take love for granted because it's what binds the world together.
SONYA MATEJKO
"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016
All you need is love. And a tiara. And maybe a cookie.
ANONYMOUS
In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Let your love flow out on all living things.
WILLIAM STYRON
Sophie's Choice
Love and death were what novels were about.
OAKLEY HALL
Love and War in California
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?
Sometimes it ought to be.
Sometimes it is.
DORIS LESSING
Play with a Tiger
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern
The caresses over which love presides are always pure.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage