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Dangers of love17 quotes
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher. — Johnny Cash · 1963But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890All 17 quotes →Love12 quotes
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss. — Umberto Eco · 1980All 12 quotes →Unrequited love3 quotes
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921Men and women2 quotes
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. — William Congreve · 1700Avoiding love1 quote
In love, the only safety lies in flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte · 1820Beautiful women1 quote
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958Beauty1 quote
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958Betrayal1 quote
Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Complexities of love1 quote
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1784Crush1 quote
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984Falling in love1 quote
I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher. — Johnny Cash · 1963Infatuation1 quote
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984Infidelity1 quote
Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Love and hate1 quote
I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony. — Catullus · 51 BCLove as trap1 quote
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600Marriage1 quote
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895Nature of love1 quote
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss. — Umberto Eco · 1980Sex1 quote
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1784Vulnerability1 quote
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003