Love Letters quotes
Originally posted at lilian_cho
Quotes from Love Letters (from the Post Impressions Series) by JoAnna Poehlmann. New York: Abbeville P, 1991.
"Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" -- Christopher Marlowe
"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away." -- Walter Percy (IMO, to love someone is to accept someone as is, but yet to push him/her to become a better person.)
"(though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.)" -- e.e. cummings, "Thy fingers make early flowers".
"It is overdoing the thing to die of love." -- French proverb
"Whither thou goest I will go." -- Ruth 1:16 (to her mother-in-law, Naomi)
"Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease
And builds a heaven in hell's despair." -- William Blake
"To love oneself is a beginning of a lifelong romance." -- Oscar Wilde
"And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears." -- Sir Walter Scott
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -- Saint Exupery (I _think_ this is Antoine de Saint-Exupery and not some other random Saint Exupery, but I'm not sure...will have to check on that.)
"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have -- the older she gets the more he is interested in her." -- Agatha Christie
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved." -- Colette
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." -- Andre Maurois.
"Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life." -- Albert Camus
"And if I loved you Wednesday, well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I never met a man I didn't like." -- Will Rogers
"You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hatable. It takes brains to see the difference." -- Robert Frost
"Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent." -- Thoreau
"Love me
Love my dog" --Latin proverb
"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce." -- Miguel de Cervantes
"Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love is like seeing ghosts. We all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one." -- La Rochefoucauld
"You can be hurt only if you care a lot." -- Andy Warhol
Quotes from Love Letters (from the Post Impressions Series) by JoAnna Poehlmann. New York: Abbeville P, 1991.
"Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" -- Christopher Marlowe
"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away." -- Walter Percy (IMO, to love someone is to accept someone as is, but yet to push him/her to become a better person.)
"(though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.)" -- e.e. cummings, "Thy fingers make early flowers".
"It is overdoing the thing to die of love." -- French proverb
"Whither thou goest I will go." -- Ruth 1:16 (to her mother-in-law, Naomi)
"Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease
And builds a heaven in hell's despair." -- William Blake
"To love oneself is a beginning of a lifelong romance." -- Oscar Wilde
"And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears." -- Sir Walter Scott
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -- Saint Exupery (I _think_ this is Antoine de Saint-Exupery and not some other random Saint Exupery, but I'm not sure...will have to check on that.)
"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have -- the older she gets the more he is interested in her." -- Agatha Christie
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved." -- Colette
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." -- Andre Maurois.
"Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life." -- Albert Camus
"And if I loved you Wednesday, well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I never met a man I didn't like." -- Will Rogers
"You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hatable. It takes brains to see the difference." -- Robert Frost
"Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent." -- Thoreau
"Love me
Love my dog" --Latin proverb
"The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce." -- Miguel de Cervantes
"Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love is like seeing ghosts. We all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one." -- La Rochefoucauld
"You can be hurt only if you care a lot." -- Andy Warhol