Literary Love Quotes

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.5, l.51-2.

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• His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Stars, Flower

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

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• It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Love, Valentines Day, Sight

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.149, Hamilton Books

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• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Dark, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fire, Hair, Different

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.185, Vintage

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• I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.

  Philip Pullman

  Flower, Clouds, Light

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Listening, Tuning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

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• Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Romantic, Book, Reflection

  Michael Ondaatje (2007). “Vintage Ondaatje”, p.117, Vintage

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• Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Romantic, Happens

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Age of Innocence”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Forever, Mind

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Romantic, Love You, Pride

  Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

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• The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Beautiful, Real Friends

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)

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• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.528, Charles Dickens

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Space, Needs, Most Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Notebook

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 15, 2013

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 01, 2013

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  We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Funny, Life

  "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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• Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Sad Love, Art

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