Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"Those who love deeply understand that pain and pleasure are sisters."
Sappho
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"Love is the greatest force in the universe."
Xenophanes
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"To love deeply is to risk everything, yet to risk nothing is to love nothing."
Pindar
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"Love is the fire that burns away all that is false and leaves only truth."
Pindar
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"Love is the desire to unite with beauty."
Anaxagoras
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"The bond of love is stronger than any chain of iron."
Aesop
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"The heart knows reasons the mind cannot comprehend."
Aesop
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"To love deeply is to risk everything and gain everything."
Pindar
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"The heart knows what the mind cannot yet understand"
Sappho
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"To love deeply is to accept the inevitability of loss"
Sappho
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"The deepest love often wears the quietest face"
Sappho
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"In loving another, we discover who we are meant to become"
Sappho
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"To love is to seek to understand the other as fully as oneself."
Anaximenes
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"Love is the recognition of unity beneath apparent separation."
Anaximenes
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"To love another is to understand their imperfections and accept them."
Xenophanes
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"To love without reservation is to live without fear of loss."
Pindar
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"To love is to accept another's flaws as part of their beauty."
Aesop
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"To love truly is to risk hurt truly."
Aesop
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"Love is the bond that holds all things together."
Anaximander
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"Love transcends all boundaries."
Anaximander
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"Love will make men dare to die for their beloved."
Aristophanes
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"True love is not found but created."
Aristophanes
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"He seems to me equal to gods, that man whoever he is who opposite you sits and listens close to your sweet speaking."
Sappho
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"I have not had one word from her. Frankly I wish I were dead."
Sappho
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"Sweet mother, I cannot mind my wheel; my fingers are too feeble from the spell of golden Aphrodite."
Sappho
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"Peer of gods is he who sitting before you gazes at your beauty undistractedly."
Sappho
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"My heart has been struck by desire, light as wind on mountains."
Sappho
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"Pain shoots through my limbs; a sweet, insidious ache returns."
Sappho
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"Desire burns hotter than any flame lit by mortal hands."
Sappho
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"You asked why I do not sing anymore; I have given my voice to sorrow."
Sappho