Love Quotes

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

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"Love is a dangerous voyage, and the heart is a ship often wrecked."
Herman Melville
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"To love is to invite both ecstasy and devastation into your life."
Herman Melville
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"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Love and hate are both fierce, both blind, both capable of any deed."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The heart wants what it wants—or else it does not care."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Love will make a man do what he never thought possible."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The heart wants what it wants or it does not care."
Emily Dickinson
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"Ourselves were wed one summer and could the dew have come."
Emily Dickinson
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"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Love conquers all."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Being 'in love' is good, being 'in love' as a permanent condition is something no one really wants."
Henry James
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"The idea of the perfect woman is something every man has."
Henry James
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"Real love has little to do with words."
Henry James
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"We must love one another or die."
François Mauriac
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"Love is the only force that can change a human being."
François Mauriac
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"We are called to love unconditionally."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest love requires the greatest sacrifice."
François Mauriac
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"Love is the only language that truly unites us."
François Mauriac
"There is no greater religion than human love."
Mark Twain
"I would sooner live and love where I hate than be beloved where I love not."
Mark Twain
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"Love is the only force that can conquer hatred."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"One cannot love without respecting, and one cannot respect without some admiration."
Herman Melville
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"There is a comfort in the strength of love."
Herman Melville
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"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend."
Herman Melville
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"To love is to prefer another to oneself."
Anatole France
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"We love in proportion to our capacity for suffering."
Anatole France
"Love is the only excuse for existing, and it is never sufficient."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline