Quotes about love

"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."

Laing, R. D. on love
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"Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God."

Law, William on love
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"Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love."

Law, William on love
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"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it."

Lawrence, D. H. on love   

"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"I shall always be a priest of love."

Lawrence, D. H. on love   

"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."

Layton, Irving on love
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"Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever."

Leach, Christopher on love   

"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von on love
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"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

Lennon, John on love
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"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

Lennon, John on love
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

Lessing, Doris on love
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"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."

Leunig, Michael on love
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Levine, Stephen on love
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"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

Levine, Stephen on love
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"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

Lewis, Sinclair on love
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"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."

Lokes, Harold on love
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"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Luce, Clare Boothe on love
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"Love is inseparable from knowledge."

Macarius of Egypt, St. on love   

"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."

Magnani, Anna on love   

"There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality."

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne on love   

"Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so."

Malory, Sir Thomas on love   

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."

Mandino, Og on love
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"Do all things with love."

Mandino, Og on love
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"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."

Mansfield, Katherine on love
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"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."

Marino, Michael Garrett on love
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Marlowe, Christopher on love
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"There is no living with thee, nor without thee."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on love
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"If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America."

Martineau, Harriet on love   

"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other."

Maugham, W. Somerset on love   

"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."

Maupassant, Guy de on love
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"The love boat has crashed against the everyday."

Mayakovsky, Vladimir on love   

"Love is all you need."

Mccartney, Paul on love
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