Love Quotes

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

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"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Do you know what it means to be loved? It means to be understood in your essence."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"To love is to be vulnerable, and vulnerability is the bravest thing."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Love is the only thing that makes life bearable."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"I have loved but one person truly in my life."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Love requires vulnerability; therein lies its power."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Love is the most selfish of all emotions, masquerading as selflessness."
Knut Hamsun
"Youth means love, though often love means youth."
Robert Browning
"Escape me? Never—Beloved! While I am I, and you are you."
Robert Browning
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
Robert Browning
"Love is best perceived through patient waiting."
Robert Browning
"Where both deliberate, the love is slight: where both are mad, the love is absolute."
Robert Browning
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"The future is just darkness without you."
Robert Browning
"I die: but first your light goes! Farewell."
Robert Browning
"To know each other is to love each other."
Robert Browning
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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The human heart contains universes that no telescope can measure."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of; love transcends logic."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"To love is to be vulnerable; to refuse love is to refuse life itself."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The heart desires what it desires, and we cannot always command our affections."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"In love, as in life, we are often blind to what is plainly before us."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Love is not a gentle thing; it is fierce and all-consuming."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"To love is to surrender control and trust in faith."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Love demands we become more than we thought ourselves capable of being."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"We love not the person, but the possibility we see in them."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Love is the only force that transcends reason and logic."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti