Love Quotes - 6
More Love Quotes - 6
"...there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud – 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de white folks!'"
sojourner truth— Olive Gilbert & Sojourner Truth (1878), Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time, page 159.
I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom; I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume. I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme, Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time.
Paul Webster— The Twelfth of Never, by Paul Webster & Jerry Livingston [2]
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
bertrand russell— What I Believe (1925)
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
augustine of hippo— Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 392.
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
john dryden— John Dryden, The Secular Masque (1700), Line 82.
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
john of the cross— John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas, Note to Stanza, 28 part 1
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
madeleine l'engle— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door, (1973).
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
— Ayn Rand, Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
bertrand russell— Marriage and Morals (1929), Ch. 9: "The Place of Love in Human Life".
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
lytton strachey— To Dora Carrington (March 23, 1917)
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in The Sirens of Titan (1959).
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. from the prologue of Slapstick (1976).
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Professor at the Breakfast Table.
Under floods that are deepest, which Neptune obey, over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way.
Thomas Percy— "Love will find out the way". Ballad in Percy's Reliques.
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807), Book VIII, Chapter II.
And my heart springs up anew, bright and confident and true. And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
Robert Louis Stevenson— I Who All the Winter Through, poem written 1876.
Love, as is told by the seers of old, comes as a butterfly tipped with gold. Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
algernon charles swinburne— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
rabindranath tagore
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
Tori Spelling
Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all. But most of all, Mothers love always.
Richelle E. Goodrich— Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year (2015)
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 125)
