Love Quotes

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

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"Hell, I'm looking for someone to love."
Harper Lee
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"Love isn't something you can measure or quantify easily."
Harper Lee
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"Loving is a great activity, but it's not the whole thing."
Saul Bellow
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"Love is like a great work of art that has to be constantly recreated."
Saul Bellow
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"To love someone is to see all of their possibilities."
Saul Bellow
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"The greatest gift is the ability to love."
Norman Mailer
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"Something must be wrong with me, because I've never gone mad for love."
Joseph Heller
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"Love is the most powerful force in the universe."
Joseph Heller
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"Love conquers all, but not without effort."
Joseph Heller
"The greatest love is the love that asks nothing in return."
Cormac McCarthy
"Marriage is the condition of being bound to someone forever."
Philip Roth
"Everything you love is bound to disappoint you eventually."
David Foster Wallace
"Love is the only antidote to existential dread we have."
David Foster Wallace
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"Love is the most deceptive of all human emotions."
Saul Bellow
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"The capacity for love distinguishes us from the beasts."
Saul Bellow
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"Love is knowing someone completely and choosing them anyway."
Saul Bellow
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"The terrible thing is you can't just turn love off."
J.D. Salinger
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"Love is the most dangerous and necessary risk."
Joseph Heller
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"One cannot really love a person one does not respect."
Norman Mailer
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"Love is a great beautifier."
Norman Mailer
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"To love is to place yourself at the mercy of another."
Norman Mailer
"The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I love you, and I want you to do mankind a favor and make me an article that says so."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The ability to be alone is the prerequisite for the ability to love."
David Foster Wallace
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"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too."
Saul Bellow
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"Love is the only thing that makes sense in a senseless world."
Joseph Heller
"What we love is always more complicated than we admit."
Philip Roth
"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
Philip Roth
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"Love is a becoming, not a state."
Norman Mailer
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"We have different kinds of love - the love of the soul and the love of the body."
Norman Mailer