Love Is Like Quotes - Page 9

• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
  Everybody sees you're blown apart,
  Everybody feels the wind blow.'

  Paul Simon

  Life, Heart, Blow

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• O, love, love, love!
  Love is like a dizziness;
  It winna let a poor body
  Gang about his biziness!

  James Hogg

  Life, Love Is, Body

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.116

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• One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love Is, Tools, Use

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• The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.

  John Owen

  Moon, Love Is, Clouds

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.30, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.24, Penguin

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• Love is like fire.
  Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

  Life, Love Is, Fire

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• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  Samuel Daniel

  Sweet, Morning, Cheer

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6

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• Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Emotional, Color

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.17, Vintage

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• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

  Hannah More

  Love, Fire, Water

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• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Encouragement, Love Is, Orchids

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Losing love is like a window in your heart.

  Paul Simon

  Heart, Love Is, Losing

  Song: Graceland

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• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  Larry McMurtry

  Morning, Horse, Love Is

  "Leaving Cheyenne". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1963.

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• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Disappointment, Kissing, Night

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Ocean

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you’ve got a meatless pie, and what’s the point of that?” “Why, Freddy,” Minerva said, “that was almost profound.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Couple, Love Is, Pie

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia J. Ruehlmann (1999). “Gifts of Love”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.

  Deb Caletti

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Government

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I found you a thousand times; I guess you done the same; But then we lose each other; It's like a children's game; As I find you here again; A thought runs through my mind; Our love is like a circle; Let's go 'round one more time.

  Harry Chapin

  Running, Children, Love Is

  Song: Circle

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Beautiful, Dog

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• Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Love Is, Games

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• Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crush, Love Is, Weight

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Running

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