Love Quotes

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

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"If you can't marry for love, don't marry at all."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Love is a very beautiful thing, but it is also terrible."
Henrik Ibsen
"To love without judgment is to love truly."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"To love deeply is to risk everything, yet risk nothing in comparison to a life unlived."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Love's greatest test is loving those who seem unlovable."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Love is the only force stronger than hatred."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Love is either the shrinking of the soul or its temporary transformation."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Your name - bird in my hand, piece of ice on my tongue."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Anguish and love are sisters."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I will come back to you as a shadow comes when the sun sets."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Love is either the shrinking of the soul or its temporary salvation."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Every love story is a tragedy waiting to happen."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I will not apologize for the size of my heart."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have learned that longing never dies, it only transforms."
Anna Akhmatova
"True love knows no bounds and recognizes no barriers"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Love is the only thing that can divide a man and still make him whole."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Real love is a kind of dying, a loss of self in the presence of another."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"To love is to commit oneself to the unknown and to embrace it willingly."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The hour of the lover is the only one that counts for the lover."
August Strindberg
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"Marriage is the grave of love."
August Strindberg
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"The greatest tragedy is not to have loved at all."
August Strindberg
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"Love is the most beautiful thing, and the most destructive."
August Strindberg
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"Love asks nothing and gives everything, which is why it terrifies us."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"To love is to be vulnerable, and vulnerability is the truest form of courage."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Love is the only reality, but people have made it a lie."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Love is not found but created through commitment."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Love is not weakness. It is the greatest strength."
Boris Pasternak
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"I could write a thousand songs for you in the blink of an eye."
Boris Pasternak
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"To love someone means to accept them as they are."
Boris Pasternak
"Love is the bridge between solitude and connection."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson