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Love242 quotes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850 Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BC Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BC I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987 My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597 All 242 quotes →

Nature of love47 quotes

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BC Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987 Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — Apostle Paul · 55 Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957 All 47 quotes →

Being in love21 quotes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850 I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609 Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792 I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861 I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861 All 21 quotes →

Power of love16 quotes

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BC Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792 Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294 Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod · 700 BC Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BC All 16 quotes →

Dangers of love12 quotes

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600 But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599 Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819 Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890 Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003 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 · 1980 All 12 quotes →

Loving others12 quotes

To love another person is to see the face of God. — Jean Valjean · 2012 By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869 When you really love somebody, you got to love everything about them. You got to love the crust of a motherfucker. You can’t just love the white part of the bread. You got to love the crust, the crumbs, the little fuckin' crumbs at the bottom of the toaster. That’s what the real motherfucker is. — Chris Rock · 1999 A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939 I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004 It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 All 12 quotes →

Relationships10 quotes

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1939 My beloved is mine, and I am his. — Song of Solomon 2:16 · 965 BC Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847 There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862 There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599 All 10 quotes →

True love8 quotes

Where true love is, it showeth; it will not feign. — Christine de Pizan · 1399 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. — William Shakespeare · 1609 I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 But true Love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1580 But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013 I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough. — Duke · 2004 All 8 quotes →

Fading love7 quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children. — Mark Twain · 1894 There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890 Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856 Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631 When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599 Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838 All 7 quotes →

Lost love7 quotes

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850 Love is so short, forgetting is so long. — Pablo Neruda · 1924 There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890 Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1928 Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. — William Shakespeare · 1616 He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. — W.H. Auden · 1936 All 7 quotes →

Marriage6 quotes

No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894 I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009 Love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine— A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour, Down to a very homely household savour. — Lord Byron · 1821 Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838 Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987 In Marriage without love, there will be Love without Marriage. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734

Men and women6 quotes

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667 Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819 Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819 No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894 This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith. — Archie Bunker · 1973 What thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667

Unrequited love6 quotes

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599 If equal affection cannot be let the more loving one be me. — W.H. Auden · 1957 I can’t make you love me if you don’t. You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t. — Bonnie Raitt · 1991 Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart. — William Blake · 1792 A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. — Abraham Cowley · 1633 The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921

Broken heart5 quotes

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850 Love is so short, forgetting is so long. — Pablo Neruda · 1924 He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. — W.H. Auden · 1936 By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. — William Shakespeare · 1597 It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. — Catullus · 54 BC

Falling in love4 quotes

Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. — William Shakespeare · 1616 No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. — Thomas Moore · 1807 I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847 Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881

Friendship4 quotes

Love comes from blindness, Friendship comes from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665 Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688 Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90

Love and hate4 quotes

I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BC 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 BC Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. — Joyce Carol Oates · 1987

New love4 quotes

Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856 Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. — William Shakespeare · 1616 No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. — Thomas Moore · 1807 O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. — William Shakespeare · 1616

Relationship challenges4 quotes

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say- She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away. — Alexander Pushkin · 1837 The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599 Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. — Terence · 166 BC And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609

Vulnerability4 quotes

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951 Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861 Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003 Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. — Iris Murdoch · 1959

Connecting with others3 quotes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847 There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862 Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929

Finding the one3 quotes

I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009 I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847 Find somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with, and hold onto her forever. — John Bridger · 2003

Hate3 quotes

I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BC Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. — Joyce Carol Oates · 1987

Selflessness3 quotes

By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869 You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! — Jean Anouilh · 1948 To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. — Alphonse de Lamartine · 1849

Acceptance2 quotes

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Accepting others2 quotes

Avoiding love2 quotes

I could never find time for love. It's too heavy. It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, I got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, my bike. — Topper Harley · 1991 In love, the only safety lies in flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte · 1820

Commitment2 quotes

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861 Find somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with, and hold onto her forever. — John Bridger · 2003

Excess2 quotes

If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602 With love, you see, even too much is not enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784

Expression of love2 quotes

How wonderful life is while you're in the world. — Elton John · 1970 This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith. — Archie Bunker · 1973

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