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It's love that makes the world go round!
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
- My soul can reach.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of trees. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, Mar. 9, 1853
Love -- bittersweet, irrepressible -- loosens my limbs and I tremble.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NIN, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Invisible Monsters
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKE, Letters to a Young Poet
When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
MAXIM GORKY, Jerry Dorsman's How to Achieve Peace of Mind
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
APHRA BEHN, The Fair Jilt
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
They do not love that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.
JENNETTE LEE, The Ibsen Secret
Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.
JENNETTE LEE, The Ibsen Secret
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN, The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevailent [sic] only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.
HERBERT SPENCER, The Study of Sociology
Love is blind.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN, Parted Lips: Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages
- Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
- 'Tis woman's whole existence.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH, Aphorism
Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSE, Peter Camenzind
Love fattens on smooth words.
KATHARINE HEPBURN, Me: Stories of My Life
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Love, such as it is in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies.
SEBASTIEN R.N. CHAMFORT, Maximes et pensées
The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Love is eternal as long as it lasts.
Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
KATHARINE HEPBURN, Evan Esar's 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
Love's tongue is in the eyes.
PHINEAS FLETCHER, Piscatory Eclogues
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER, Animal Dreams
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
LEO TOLSTOY, War and Peace
BONO, "North and South of the River"
- Have you heard the word is love?
- It’s so fine, it’s sunshine.
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND, The Advocate, Aug. 17, 1999
- Love seeketh not itself to please,
- Nor for itself hath any care,
- But for another gives its ease,
- And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Songs of Experience
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Let me prevail as of old, as lover, as lord, as king, or have done with Love's tyrant rule.
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT, To Nimue
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