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Because it’s #ValentinesDay (as if you can miss it given all the decorations around the corner), here’s my list of favourite quotes on #love and all that. Different moods, languages, cultures, periods, genres.
Because it’s #ValentinesDay (as if you can miss it given all the decorations around the corner), here’s my list of favourite quotes on #love and all that. Different moods, languages, cultures, periods, genres.
1. “So I go from being half in love with you, and wanting you to be with me always, and known everything about me, to the extreme of wildness and aloofness.”
~ Virginia Woolf’s letter to her boyfriend (later husband) Leonard Woolf, May 1, 1912
~ Virginia Woolf’s letter to her boyfriend (later husband) Leonard Woolf, May 1, 1912
2
“don’t forget to sleep on your little cushion, because I really like it. Don’t kiss anyone while you read the signs and names on the street. Don’t take anyone else to our Central Park. Don’t kiss anyone on the couch in your office. Don’t make love to anyone, if you can help it”
“don’t forget to sleep on your little cushion, because I really like it. Don’t kiss anyone while you read the signs and names on the street. Don’t take anyone else to our Central Park. Don’t kiss anyone on the couch in your office. Don’t make love to anyone, if you can help it”
👆🏼
Frida Kahlo’s letter to Nickolas Murray in February, 1939.
Nick took one of Frida’s most iconic photographs.
Frida Kahlo’s letter to Nickolas Murray in February, 1939.
Nick took one of Frida’s most iconic photographs.
3
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,…
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,…
…so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
~Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
~Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
4
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
5
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
~Rumi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
~Rumi
6
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
7
“Tumhara hijr manaa luuñ agar ijazat ho
Main dil kisi se laga luuñ agar ijazat ho”
~ Jaun Eliya
“Tumhara hijr manaa luuñ agar ijazat ho
Main dil kisi se laga luuñ agar ijazat ho”
~ Jaun Eliya
8
“All birds come home, all rivers, all of life's tasks finished.
Only darkness remains, as I sit there face to face with Banalata Sen.”
~Jibanananda Das, Banalata Sen
“All birds come home, all rivers, all of life's tasks finished.
Only darkness remains, as I sit there face to face with Banalata Sen.”
~Jibanananda Das, Banalata Sen
9
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
10
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
11
“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you”
~ Pablo Neruda
(PS: I sent this to @praveenswami when we started dating.)
“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you”
~ Pablo Neruda
(PS: I sent this to @praveenswami when we started dating.)
12
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
❤️
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
❤️
13
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
~ Homer, The Iliad
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
~ Homer, The Iliad
14
“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
~Virgil, The Aeneid
“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
~Virgil, The Aeneid
15
“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
And babble the same speech without need of meaning.”
~TS Eliot, A Dedication To My Wife
“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
And babble the same speech without need of meaning.”
~TS Eliot, A Dedication To My Wife
16
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
17
“Cover mine eyes, O my Love!
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is poignant and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
Shelter my soul, O my love!
…
O shelter my soul from thy face!”
~Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
“Cover mine eyes, O my Love!
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is poignant and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
Shelter my soul, O my love!
…
O shelter my soul from thy face!”
~Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
18
“Yeh jo mohabbat hai
Yeh unka hai kaam
Arre mehboob ka jo
Bas lete hue naam
Mar jaayein, mit jaayein
Ho jaayein badnaam..
Rehne do chhodo bhi jaane do yaar
Hum na karenge pyaar...”
~Anand Bakhshi, Kati Patang
“Yeh jo mohabbat hai
Yeh unka hai kaam
Arre mehboob ka jo
Bas lete hue naam
Mar jaayein, mit jaayein
Ho jaayein badnaam..
Rehne do chhodo bhi jaane do yaar
Hum na karenge pyaar...”
~Anand Bakhshi, Kati Patang
19
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
~Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
~Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
20
“This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other’s weaknesses.”
~ Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
“This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other’s weaknesses.”
~ Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
21
“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence; man may range
The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart;
Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange
Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart…
“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence; man may range
The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart;
Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange
Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart…
…And few there are whom these cannot estrange;
Men have all these resources, we but one,
To love again, and be again undone.”
Lord Gordon Byron, Don Juan
(Extracted from Donna Julia’s letter to Don Juan after the latter abandons her.)
Men have all these resources, we but one,
To love again, and be again undone.”
Lord Gordon Byron, Don Juan
(Extracted from Donna Julia’s letter to Don Juan after the latter abandons her.)
22
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow,
when I’m dead—I shall feel it.
…
And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow,
when I’m dead—I shall feel it.
…
And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
23
“Ishq nazuk-mizaj hai behad
Aql ka bojh utha nahin sakta”
~Akbar Allahabadi
“Ishq nazuk-mizaj hai behad
Aql ka bojh utha nahin sakta”
~Akbar Allahabadi
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