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Nature of love53 quotes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCLove is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970Love 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 · 55Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942All 53 quotes →Love47 quotes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCLove is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970Love 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 · 55Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957All 47 quotes →True love3 quotes
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 · 1609But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real. — Jesse · 2013Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark. — William Shakespeare · 1609Apologies1 quote
Love means never having to say you're sorry. — Jenny · 1970Challenges of love1 quote
It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint. — John Osborne · 1956Connecting with others1 quote
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929Cynicism about love1 quote
Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and the illusionary need for divorce lawyers. — Kevin Dolenz · 1985Dangers 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 · 1980Fallen world1 quote
If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957Friendship1 quote
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Generosity1 quote
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Generous love1 quote
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 · 1794Imperfection1 quote
If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957Love and lust1 quote
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593Love as action1 quote
Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not. — Wendell Berry · 1996Love hurts1 quote
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn. — William Shakespeare · 1597Love is blind1 quote
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare · 1599Lust1 quote
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593Men and women1 quote
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819Nature of friendship1 quote
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Power of love1 quote
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Relationship challenges1 quote
The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599Relationships1 quote
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 · 1939Self-denial1 quote
You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love. — Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) · 2012Selflessness1 quote
You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! — Jean Anouilh · 1948Sex1 quote
Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive. — Henry Fairlie · 1978