Quotes about love

"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on love
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"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness."

Brooke, Rupert on love   

"All the little emptiness of love!"

Brooke, Rupert on love
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

Brown, Charlie on love
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"Love without attachment is light."

Brown, Norman O. on love
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"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."

Brown, Rita Mae on love
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Browning, Robert on love
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"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love
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"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love
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"We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully."

Buber, Martin on love   

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Buber, Martin on love
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"Love alone could waken love."

Buck, Pearl S. on love
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child."

Buddha on love
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on love
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on love
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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."

Butler, Samuel on love
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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

Byron, Lord on love
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on love
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"Who loves, raves."

Byron, Lord on love
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."

Calvino, Italo on love
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Camus, Albert on love
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"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

Capote, Truman on love
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"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."

Carlyle, Thomas on love
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."

Carroll, Pat on love
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"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."

Catullus on love
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"Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on love   

"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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