Old Love Quotes - Page 3

• The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Love Relationship, Our Relationship, Confidential

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• Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Giving

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “Prayer”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Years, People

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• Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

  Grace Helbig

  Love Is, Young Love, Ridiculous

  Grace Helbig (2014). “Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Lasts, Kind, Desperate

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
  And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,
  May they be strong to keep hate out
  And hold love in.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Strong, Wall, Laughter

  "Prayer for This House". Poem by Louis Untermeyer, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

  Whitney Otto

  Love, Friendship, Two

  Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love Is, Soul, Earth

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• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Heart, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

  Robert Jordan

  Old Friends, Enemy, Wish

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.456, Macmillan

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• Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

  Mary Schmich

  Letters, Sunscreen, Love Letter

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

  Marcel Proust

  Journey, Years, Ties

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.212, Modern Library

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Break Through, Gold, Stones

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• Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

  Jane Hamilton

  Morning, Fall, Rain

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• Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Gold

  'Essay of Death' in The Remaines of...Lord Verulam (1648)

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• Tis well to be merry and wise,
  'Tis well to be honest and true;
  It is best to be off with the old love,
  Before you are on with the new.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Love, Wise, Honest

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• Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Literature, Ghost

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes:”, p.73

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• In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

  B. F. Skinner

  Children, Deserve You, World

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

  Sara Teasdale

  Being True, Faithless

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Mistake, Sight

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Fear, Next, Lost

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• Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

  Ann Reinking

  Dance, Real, Flames

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• We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

  Al Franken

  Love, Mean, Years

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, 2003.

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• My merry, merry, merry roundelay
  Concludes with Cupid's curse,
  They that do change old love for new,
  Pray gods, they change for worse!

  George Peele

  Life, Praying, Cupid

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.355

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