Quotes about Love
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
— John Donne
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.
— John Donne
For this, Love is enraged with me; Yet kills not. If I must example be To future rebels, if the unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill and dissect me, Love; for this Torture against thine own end is: Racked carcasses make ill anatomies
— John Donne
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
— John Donne
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love
— John Donne
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
— John Donne
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
— John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
— John Donne
Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.
— John Donne
Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
— John Donne
But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.
— John Donne
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
— John Donne