Quotes about love

"It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

Mcdonald, George on love
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."

Mencken, H. L. on love   

"Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another."

Mencken, H. L. on love   

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Mencken, H. L. on love
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"To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia."

Mencken, H. L. on love   

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures."

Meredith, George on love   

"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on love   

"If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on love   

"Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works."

Mitchell, John N. on love
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"To always be loved one must ever be agreeable."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on love   

"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

Moore, George on love
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"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

More, Hannah on love
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

Mother Teresa on love
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"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."

Mother Teresa on love   

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on love
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"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."

Murdoch, Iris on love   

"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

Nathan, George Jean on love
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"Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception."

Neckar, Madame on love   

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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"I love those who do not know how to live for today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"Love is a friendship caught on fire."

Northern Exposure on love
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"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."

Oakley, Ann on love
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"In love there are two things -- bodies and words."

Oates, Joyce Carol on love   

"To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us."

Orczy, Baroness on love
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"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

Orwell, George on love
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"I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation."

Osgood, Samuel on love
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"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

Overby, Mark on love
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"If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love."

Ovid on love   

"Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give."

Oxenham, John on love
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Pascal, Blaise on love
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"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."

Pavese, Cesare on love
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