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Quotes About Love

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
~ Robert Burton
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~ Anais Nin
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
~ Nan Fairbrother
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
~ Tammy Wynette
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~ Tammy Wynette
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
~ David Byrne
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
~ William Congreve
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
~ John Donne
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
~ Erich Segal
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
~ John Lennon
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
~ John Keats
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~ Judith Viorst
Love is metaphysical gravity.
~ Unknown
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
~ Unknown
Love conquers all.
~ Virgil