LOVE QUOTES XXXIX

quotations about love

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W. B. YEATS

"Brown Penny"

Tags: William Butler Yeats


Love is a kind of warfare.

OVID

The Art of Love

Tags: Ovid


Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing:
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.

SAMUEL DANIEL

Hymen's Triumph

Tags: Samuel Daniel


When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Lady Midnight


We had known each other for many years; starved together, worked together, loved each other, suffered each other, made love; and yet the most tremendous consummation of our love was occurring now, as she patiently, in love and terror, held my hand.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Tags: James Baldwin


Love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

Tags: James Baldwin


Love is an amazing magnet.

NICHOLSON BAKER

Traveling Sprinkler

Tags: Nicholson Baker


Love also looks like me coming downstairs to a full pot of coffee every morning because coffee is love. Love looks like all the lunches being made already so I can enjoy that aforementioned cup of coffee.

AMY BETTERS-MIDTVEDT

"Wife Writes Note About What Love Is Like When Instagram Isn't Looking", Huffington Post, November 1, 2017


Our love is simply about us being together, hand in hand, for the small, daily joys in the world around us.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


Love is blind and in hindsight is twenty-twenty.

PETER FACINELLI

"Peter Facinelli recalls divorce from '90210' star Jennie Garth", FOX News, October 19, 2017


Love can get nasty when there's people involved.

MIKE WRATHELL

"Mozart's 'Figaro' Flies Thru Detroit!", America Jr., November 14, 2017


Be the love that the world needs to survive, to thrive, and to continue make being alive more worthwhile.

SONYA MATEJKO

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


All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: John Lyly


Let us suppose the loved one is as madly impelled toward the lover. In a few days, in an hour, nay, in an instant -- for there is such a thing as love at first sight -- this man and woman, two unrelated individuals, who may never have seen each other before, conceive a passion, greater, intenser than all other affections, friendships, and social relations. So great, so intense is it, that the world could crumble to star-dust so long as their souls rushed together. If necessary, they would break all ties, forsake all friends, abandon all blood kin, run away from all moral responsibilities. There can be no discussion.... We see it every day, for love is the most perfectly selfish thing in the universe.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters

Tags: Jack London


Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations

Tags: Alphonse de Lamartine


Love Bertrand, love his dog.

FRENCH PROVERB


Such as are excited by the gentler influence of Love assume more of affection in their looks, sink their voice into greater softness, and manifest in their gestures greater nobleness of soul.

XENOPHON

The Banquet

Tags: Xenophon


Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage