quotations about love
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
The Rector of Justin
No rose without a thorn, nor love without a rival.
TURKISH PROVERB
Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
Treatise on the Love of God
Love is the most common miracle.
JOHN GREEN
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN
Palamon and Arcite
Love is like butter, it goes well with bread.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Love is in that extra hour of sleep you didn't even realize he gave you until you woke up feeling that little bit more human.
RASHA RUSHDY
"Love Is Sweatpants and Take-out, Actually", Huffington Post, February 14, 2016
Love is blind but sees afar.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Love is a kind of warfare.
OVID
The Art of Love
Love for those too easily won does not last long.
ROMAN PROVERB
Love dwindles by pairing.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Love demands that we stop asking "how can my wife/parent/sibling be better" and start asking "how can I make my wife/parent/sibling the happiest in the world?" Love demands death to self.
CHRIS STEFANICK
"Love is Easy Until It's Tested", National Catholic Register, March 19, 2016
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN
Coraline
Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, films, and nonfiction. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels such as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"The Meeting in a Dream", Other Inquisitions
There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.
IVAN KLIMA
Love and Garbage
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
The pain of love is how slowly it dies.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
One who possesses such immense power over our existence will inspire awe that easily threatens to overwhelm us, even if we believe he will never abandon or destroy us.... Its grandeur makes us feel both powerful and powerless--not just to possess the loved one--but in our existence itself: the existence which we yearn for love to anchor. To be in a relationship of love is, in other words, always a relationship of fear; indeed, the greater the love the greater the fear.
SIMON MAY
Love: A History