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Quotes About Love

We are most alive when we're in love.
~ John Updike
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.
~ Bible
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread
~ Robert Burton
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
~ Bertrand Russell
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love cannot be commanded
~ Latin proverb
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
~ Henri Matisse
To be loved is very demoralizing
~ Katharine Hepburn
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~ Thornton Wilder
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ St Jerome
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ John Donne
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
~ John Dryden
I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
~ Anne Sexton
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
~ Unknown
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
~ Amy Lowell
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
~ Henry Youngman
From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road
~ Van Morrison
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious
~ Marcel Proust
I love you when I forget about me.
~ Joni Mitchell
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany
Every love's the love before in a duller dress
~ Dorothy Parker
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~ Pablo Casals