Oliver Wendell Holmes: Quotes about love

Oliver Wendell Holmes was Poet, essayist, physician. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!
Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule,—
The world's great masters, when you 're out of school,—
Learn the brief moral of our evening's play
Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Love

“Lord of all being, thronèd afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Lord Of All Being" (1848).
Context: Lord of all being, thronèd afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!
Sun of our life, Thy quickening ray,
Sheds on our path the glow of day;
Star of our hope, Thy softened light
Cheers the long watches of the night.

Love , Soul , Star , Sun

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".

Love , Fear , Jealousy , Beauty

“One unquestioned text we read,
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed
Can burn or blot it—God is love.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we all think; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Paracelsus: "God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that".

Love , God , Fear , Reading

“Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.

Love , Age , Faith , Time

“For there we loved, and where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,
Though o'er us shine the jasper-lighted dome
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Homesick In Heamoney

Love , Home , Light , Heart

“One could never remember himself in eternity by the mere fact of having loved or hated any more than by that of having thirsted; love and hate have no more individuality in them than single waves in the ocean;—but the accidents or trivial marks which distinguished those whom we loved or hated make their memory our own forever, and with it that of our own personality also.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Love , Hate , Memory , Personality

“On Thee we fling our burdening woe,
O love Divine, forever dear:
Content to suffer, while we know,
Living and dying, Thou art near!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 596.

Love , Art , Suffering

“I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;—but, on the other hand, that the brain often runs away with the heart's best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Love , Wisdom , World , Understanding

“The mossy marbles rest
On the lips that he has prest
In their bloom;
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many a year
On the tomb.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Love

“All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes book Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner (1859)

Love , Imagination

“Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Love