--- title: "12 Excess Love Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Excess Love quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Excess Love sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/william-butler-yeats-350_bewildered_and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-th_1940040.png" --- > [“And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-them-till-they-died/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/william-butler-yeats-350_bewildered_and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-th_1940040.png) > [There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-knowledge-none-to-beauty/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-k_633244.png) > [“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-carey/give-me-excess-of-love-whatever-it-costs-we-pay-with-our-souls-and-if/) [Louise Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-carey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d64/louise-carey-53347_love_give-me-excess-of-love-whatever-it-costs_1193651.jpg) > [We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/we-sinned-for-no-reason-but-an-incomprehensible-lack-of-love-and-he/) [Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/peter-kreeft-820_excess_we-sinned-for-no-reason-but-an-incompreh_2038935.jpg) > [“Don't ever be afraid of telling someone you love them. There are things wrong with your world, but an excess of love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-haig/don-t-ever-be-afraid-of-telling-someone-you-love-them-there-are/) [Matt Haig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-haig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/matt-haig-1036_afraid_don-t-ever-be-afraid-of-telling-someone_1592925.jpg) > [We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-lynch/we-must-rejoice-when-love-is-great-and-pardon-its-excess-for-love-is/) [Arthur Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-lynch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/arthur-lynch-24442_excess_we-must-rejoice-when-love-is-great-and-p_2243630.jpg) > [The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lars-zwerenz/the-road-of-excess-leads-to-the-palace-of-wisdom-as-william-blake/) [John Lars Zwerenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lars-zwerenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/john-lars-zwerenz-35064_journey_the-road-of-excess-leads-to-the-palace-o_2249204.jpg) > [“We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/we-know-their-dream-enough-to-know-they-dreamed-and-are-dead-and-what/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fa/w-b-yeats-8179_dreams_we-know-their-dream-enough-to-know-they_1374547.jpg) > [Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/excess-of-love-did-ye-say-there-was-no-excess-there-was-defect-she/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/anonymous-1_defects_excess-of-love-did-ye-say-there-was-no-e_1240553.jpg) > [“I fall in love with someone about twice a week, but I'm starting to think that’s a common problem with writers, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zach-vandezande/i-fall-in-love-with-someone-about-twice-a-week-but-i-m-starting-to/) [Zach VandeZande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zach-vandezande/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec0/zach-vandezande-288178_fall-in-love_i-fall-in-love-with-someone-about-twice_420330.jpg) > [“I could bring the difficult childhood card but that would be a lie because I had the most decent example of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lunga-no-lia-izata/i-could-bring-the-difficult-childhood-card-but-that-would-be-a-lie/) [Lunga Noélia Izata](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lunga-no-lia-izata/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/lunga-no-lia-izata-37980_anger-quotes_i-could-bring-the-difficult-childhood-ca_1338597.jpg) > [“The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-point-which-we-consider-it-our-duty-to-note-is-that-outside-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a2/victor-hugo-32_asking-god_the-point-which-we-consider-it-our-duty_67110.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess-love/#itemlist", "name": "Excess Love Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Butler Yeats" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-them-till-they-died/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/william-butler-yeats-350_bewildered_and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-th_1940040.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/william-butler-yeats-350_bewildered_and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-th_1940040.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/william-butler-yeats-350_bewildered_and-what-if-excess-of-love-bewildered-th_1940040.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?” — William Butler Yeats", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-knowledge-none-to-beauty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-k_633244.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-k_633244.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_there-can-be-no-excess-to-love-none-to-k_633244.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. 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In was in that quarter, quia multum amavit,—because he loved much—that he was regarded as vulnerable by \"serious men,\" \"grave persons\" and \"reasonable people\"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves for animals. The Bishop of D—— had none of that harshness, which is peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: \"Who knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?\" Hideousness of aspect, deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. 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