“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

Galen; p. 105
Source: Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update May 24, 2020. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Love is too precious to be ashamed of." by Laurell K. Hamilton?

Laurell K. Hamilton261

Novelist 1963

Related quotes

“There is no reason that we should ever be ashamed of our bodies or ashamed of our love.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.”

Alison Croggon book The Riddle

Source: The Riddle

“There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il n'y a guère de gens qui ne soient honteux de s'être aimés, quand ils ne s'aiment plus.
Variant translation: There are very few people who are not ashamed to have loved when they no longer do.
Maxim 71.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”

Louis De Bernières book Birds Without Wings

Source: Birds Without Wings

“He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.”

Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet

Swer guotes wîbes minne hât,
der schamt sich aller missetât.
"Waz sol ein man, der niht engert", line 11; translation from Henry John Chaytor The Troubadours (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912) p. 128.