Love Quotes

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Julio Cortázar

The forward-directed attitudes, I think, are these: curiosity, ambition, love, courage, hunger, duty, rage. They may be backward-formed, but they are forward directed, moving toward the future. Fear, too, of course, is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Life is not so very long... A little work, a little sleep, a little love, and it is all over.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it? I don't know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented...

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Thomas Bulfinch