Love Quotes - Page 64
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
"The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.
Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press
"Song: 'Have I Told You Lately' ('Avalon Sunset')". 1989.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.146, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973