Sophie Swetchine Quotes

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

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

Since time immemorial we've explored these ideas of tragedy, the things people do for love, the great weight that occurs when love is taken away and the great length and the heroism that people will exhibit to fight for the ones that they love.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Love lift us up where we belong.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is the only real thing. Love has two possibilities: either it falls into sex and becomes a bodily thing, or it rises into devotion and becomes a thing of the spirit. Love is just in between. Just below it is the abyss of sex, and beyond it is the open sky - the infinite sky of devotion.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt One part of love is sentiment One part of love is lust One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.