Quotes about love

"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

Shaw, George Bernard on love   

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it."

Shaw, George Bernard on love   

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"All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on love
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"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on love   

"All fair in love and war."

Smedley, Francis Edward on love
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on love
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"Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count."

Smith, Wolfman Jack on love
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"The hottest love has the coldest end."

Socrates on love
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"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

Socrates on love
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"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love."

Socrates on love   

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love."

Sophocles on love
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"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

Southey, Robert on love   

"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on love
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"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on love   

"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life."

Steindl-Rast, David on love
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"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"Love is stronger than justice."

Sting on love   

"What force is more potent than love?"

Stravinsky, Igor on love   

"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"

Stravinsky, Igor on love
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

Strong, Anna on love
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"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

Sunde, Karen on love
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"After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world."

Suttner, Bertha Von on love
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"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."

Swift, Jonathan on love
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"We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others."

Szasz, Thomas on love   

"We live in the world when we love it."

Tagore, Rabindranath on love
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"For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God."

Tauler, Johannes on love   

"A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished."

Tebbets, Frank on love
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Love is the only gold."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love   

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."

Teresa of Avila, St. on love
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"True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes."

Theresa of Lisieux, St. on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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