Famous Love Quotes - Page 3

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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  Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Happy Valentines Day, Helping Others

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• Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

  John Lennon

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Inspirational, Long

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

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• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

  Stendhal

  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

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• To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Strong Women, Hurt

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Together, Sad Valentines Day

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• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Witty, Men

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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