Famous Love Quotes - Page 4

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Relationship, Crush

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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• Love gives itself; it is not bought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Short Love, Giving

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• We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Ifs, Cease

  "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.

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• Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
  It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
  That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
  And but translates the language of the heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Flames, Desire

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.284

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• I count no more my wasted tears;
  They left no echo of their fall;
  I mourn no more my lonesome years;
  This blessed hour atones for all.
  I fear not all that Time or Fate
  May bring to burden heart or brow,-
  Strong in the love that came so late,
  Our souls shall keep it always now!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Strong, Fall, Blessed

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”

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• My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
  Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
  Thy love is such I can no way repay,
  The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love Is, Rivers, Giving

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• You call it madness, but I call it love.

  Don Byas

  Love, Wedding Invitation, Madness

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Passion, Childhood

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

  Rosemonde Gerard

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Hilarious

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.75, eBookIt.com

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• This maiden she lived with no other thought
  Than to love and be loved by me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Maidens

  "Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

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• It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

  Bertrand Russell

  Falling In Love, New Relationship, Romantic Love

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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  If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

  Lynda Barry

  Love, Valentines Day, Heartbreak

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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