What Is Love Quotes - Page 4

• What is love but a second-hand emotion?

  Tina Turner

  Hands, Cynical, Emotion

  Song: What's Love Got To Do With It, Album: Private Dancer, 1993

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• What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

  Nina Simone

  Love, Heartache, Goal

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• Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Blindness, Seeing

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
  And what is love but a rose that fades?

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Yesterday, Snow, Rose

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
  ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Grief, Heart

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• What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

  Madame de Stael

  Decay, Ifs

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• What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Powerful, Attraction

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

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• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, Patriotism

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

  Mary C. Ames

  Beauty, Powerful, Sight

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• What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Heart, Men

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• “God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  "Nightwood".

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• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Laughter

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• What is love? Love to me is god.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

  Rick Yancey

  Stupid, Tricks, Fallen

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!

  Anne Frank

  Baby, Love You, Caring

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• How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to give you inspiration so you'll go out to create a path to discover what is spirit, what is beauty, what is love, because these things nobody can teach you. So teaching really should be a demolition job.

  Ricky Ray

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

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• Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

  William Penn

  Love, Marriage, Lovely

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.825

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• What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Opponents

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.184, The Floating Press

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• What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Love, Dream, Two

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• What is love ... Oh baby, don't hurt me ... Don't hurt me no more.

  Haddaway

  Baby, Hurt, Fear

  Song: What Is Love?

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• What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Love Is, God Love

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.155, New World Library

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• It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Persons, Property

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• What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Names

  Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kindness, Mean, Compassion

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• What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

  George W. S. Trow

  Success

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