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Oscar Wilde2 quotes
Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895William Shakespeare2 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 · 1599Catullus1 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 BCFranz Kafka1 quote
Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself. — Franz Kafka · 1920Jack Kerouac1 quote
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958Jim Baker1 quote
That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else. — Jim Baker · 1984Johnny Cash1 quote
I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher. — Johnny Cash · 1963Lord Byron1 quote
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819Napoleon Bonaparte1 quote
In love, the only safety lies in flight. — Napoleon Bonaparte · 1820Sam (Love Actually)1 quote
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Umberto Eco1 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 · 1980W. Somerset Maugham1 quote
The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921Waiter1 quote
Love, it's a motherfucker, huh? — Waiter · 2003William Congreve1 quote
True, '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 · 1700