Quotes about love

"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on love   

"I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?"

Marlowe, Christopher on love   

"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"I leave before being left. I decide."

Bardot, Brigitte on love
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"When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach."

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth on love
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"The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite."

Byron, Lord on love
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on love
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"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

Eliot, George on love   

"Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?"

Guest, Judith on love
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"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."

Mitchell, Margaret on love
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"I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a d?go?t given by satiety."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on love   

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?"

O'Brien, Edna on love
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"In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

Strindberg, J. August on love
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on love   

"Lovers should also have their days off."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on love
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"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."

Baudelaire, Charles on love
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"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart."

Baudrillard, Jean on love   

"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."

Bowen, Elizabeth on love   

"When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification."

Brookner, Anita on love   

"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"

Browning, Robert on love   

"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love   

"Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

Byron, Lord on love
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"One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on love
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

Connolly, Cyril on love
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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

Donne, John on love   

"A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress."

Fielding, Henry on love   

"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."

France, Anatole on love
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"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."

Hardy, Thomas on love
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"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love