Quotes about love

"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel on love
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"Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?"

Rossner, Judith on love   

"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on love   

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."

Rowland, Helen on love   

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."

Russell, Bertrand on love
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"The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty."

Russell, Bertrand on love   

"Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview."

Russell, Kurt on love
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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

Sagan, Francoise on love   

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all."

Saltus, Edgar on love   

"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity."

Sand, George on love
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"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George on love
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

Santayana, George on love
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"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

Sarton, May on love   

"I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them."

Satir, Virginia on love
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"Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on love
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"Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red."

Scherer, Paul on love   

"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."

Schreiner, Olive on love   

"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."

Seabury, David on love
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Segal, Erich on love
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"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

Segal, Erich on love
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"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

Seneca on love
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve."

Sergeevich, Ivan on love   

"Love and stoplights can be cruel."

Sesame Street on love   

"Every man loves what he is good at."

Shadwell, Thomas on love   

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]"

Shakespeare, William on love   

"To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."

Shakespeare, William on love   

"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit"

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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