Love Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Jane Austen,
William Somerset Maugham,
Mignon McLaughlin,
William Shakespeare,
Oscar Wilde
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| Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. |
| - Jean Anouilh |
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| The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. |
| - Margaret Atwood |
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| I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love wouldn't be blind if the Braille weren't so damned much fun. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? |
| - Richard Bach |
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| True love stories never have endings. |
| - Richard Bach |
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| What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. |
| - Pearl Bailey |
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| Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| Love is the poetry of the senses. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| When love is not madness, it is not love. |
| - Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
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| When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. |
| - Natalie Clifford Barney |
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| Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. |
| - Lynda Barry |
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| In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. |
| - Charles Baudelaire |
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| Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. |
| - Charles du Bos |
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| Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. |
| - Henry Bromel |
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| Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. |
| - Emily Brontë |
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| Take away love and our earth is a tomb. |
| - Robert Browning |
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| Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. |
| - Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort |
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| Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. |
| - Anton Chekhov |
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| The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. |
| - Margaret Cho |
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| Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. |
| - John Ciardi |
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| A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. |
| - Frank A. Clark |
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| Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. |
| - Bette Davis |
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| Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. |
| - Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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| Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. |
| - Hugh Elliott |
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| The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. |
| - Albert Ellis |
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| He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Thou art to me a delicious torment. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. |
| - Werner Erhard |
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| We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. |
| - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach |
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| When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. |
| - Euripides |
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| True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. |
| - François |
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| Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |
| - Carl G. Jung |
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| If I love you, what business is it of yours? |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. |
| - Emma Goldman |
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| If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. |
| - Emma Goldman |
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| Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. |
| - Germaine Greer |
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| Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. |
| - Ben Hecht |
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| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. |
| - Zora Neale Hurston |
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| Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. |
| - Erica Jong |
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| Love is my religion - I could die for it. |
| - John Keats |
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| Come live in my heart and pay no rent. |
| - Samuel Lover |
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| The love game is never called off on account of darkness. |
| - Tom Masson |
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| Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now? |
| - Jeff Melvoin |
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| Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. |
| - John Milton |
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| If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. |
| - George Moore |
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| I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. |
| - Thomas Moore |
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| Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. |
| - Iris Murdoch |
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| We can only learn to love by loving. |
| - Iris Murdoch |
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| A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. |
| - George Jean Nathan |
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| What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. |
| - Ovid |
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| Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. |
| - Dorothy Parker |
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| Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. |
| - William Penn |
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| Love is the greatest refreshment in life. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. |
| - Plato |
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| We loved with a love that was more than love. |
| - Edgar Allan Poe |
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| I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. |
| - French Proverb |
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| A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. |
| - Latin Proverb |
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| An old man in love is like a flower in winter. |
| - Portuguese Proverb |
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| Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. |
| - Swedish Proverb |
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| Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. |
| - Rita Rudner |
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| To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. |
| - J.D. Salinger |
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| Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. |
| - Charles M. Schulz |
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| Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. |
| - Percy bysshe Shelley |
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| One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. |
| - Sophocles |
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| The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| There is no remedy for love but to love more. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Love is what you've been through with somebody. |
| - James Thurber |
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| He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. |
| - Paul-Jean Toulet |
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| Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. |
| - Miguel de Unamuno |
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| Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. |
| - Peter Ustinov |
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| It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. |
| - Paul Valéry |
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| Love is being stupid together. |
| - Paul Valéry |
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| Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. |
| - Judith Viorst |
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| Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. |
| - Judith Viorst |
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| Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. |
| - Voltaire |
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| I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. |
| - Bill Watterson |
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| Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. |
| - Alan Watts |
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| Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Who, being loved, is poor? |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. |
| - William Carlow Williams |
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| True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. |
| - William Butler Yeats |
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