Love Quotes

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

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"Her laugh was like silver bells; I would have followed her anywhere."
Sappho
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"Equal to the immortals seems to me that man who sits listening to your voice."
Sappho
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"The heart knows no logic; it follows desire as ships follow the stars."
Sappho
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"Sweetness and pain are twins born from the same mother, Aphrodite."
Sappho
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"Your absence teaches me the language of longing that no teacher could instruct."
Sappho
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"To love is to set your heart upon the wheel and spin with destiny."
Sappho
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"Your hands trembled like a bird's wings; I understood then that you feared me."
Sappho
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"She danced away from me as the sun retreats from the advancing night."
Sappho
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"Even gods must bow to the power of love; we mortals stand no chance against it."
Sappho
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"She was to me what the sun is to the flowers—necessary and taken for granted until she was gone."
Sappho
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"Every mortal man should fear the love of a fair woman."
Euripides
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"Love is like a mountain wind upon a dark forest."
Euripides
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"One must fall in love. It's the best way to forget oneself."
Euripides
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"Love to faults is always blind."
Euripides
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"What appears as love may sometimes be merely the fear of solitude."
Xenophanes
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"The person who loves only themselves is incapable of true love."
Xenophanes
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
Sophocles
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"Love is like a well, the deeper you dig, the more you find."
Sophocles
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"What is life without love?"
Sophocles
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"In matters of love and wine, there is no point in being reasonable."
Aristophanes
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"Love is the only force that makes life worth the burden of living it."
Aristophanes
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others."
Euripides
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"To a man in love, nature is not just a pretty sight."
Euripides
E
"What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over love?"
Euripides
E
"To love truly is to be vulnerable."
Euripides
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"The man who loves is like a flame burning in the night."
Democritus
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"Love is an art, and like all arts it requires practice."
Democritus
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"Love is the recognition of oneself in another being."
Anaximenes
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"Love all equally, and hate all equally"
Empedocles
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"The heart of all things is love"
Empedocles