Sad Valentines Day Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Together, Embarrassment

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• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

  Caleb Carr

  Hurt, Betrayal, Believe

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.225

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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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• You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.89, Macmillan

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