Quotes about love

"Love is the cheapest of religions."

Pavese, Cesare on love   

"Speak low if you speak love."

Pedro, Don on love   

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

Perelman, Sydney Joseph on love
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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."

Petrarch, Francesco on love
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"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

Plato on love
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"Love is a serious mental disease."

Plato on love
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

Plato on love
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"Love expands."

Prather, Hugh on love   

"Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey."

Prior, Matthew on love   

"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"Love laughs at locksmiths."

Proverb on love
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"Love rules his kingdom without a sword."

Proverb on love   

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow."

Proverb on love
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"Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love."

Proverb on love
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on love
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"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek."

Proverb, French on love
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"A heart that loves is always young."

Proverb, Greek on love
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"It is easy to halve the potato where there is love."

Proverb, Irish on love   

"He who is not impatient is not in love."

Proverb, Italian on love
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"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."

Proverb, Japanese on love
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"A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple."

Proverb, Japanese on love
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"It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love."

Proverb, Jewish on love   

"Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee."

Proverb, Spanish on love
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"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love."

Rand, Ayn on love
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"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

Reagan, Ronald on love
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"He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love."

Reik, Theodor on love   

"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."

Reik, Theodor on love
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

Renard, Jules on love
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"Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late."

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts on love   

"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever."

Rich, Adrienne on love
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"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out."

Richardson, Nick on love
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"A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom."

Richter, Jean Paul on love   

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

Robbins, Tom on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred..."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on love