Love Quotes

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Samuel Richardson

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Theodore Dreiser

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The gift from those I loved so tenderly added more and more impulse to my deeply seated love of the beautiful and from the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to be as a living thing, with voice and memory and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?

When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Frances Bean Cobain

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.