Love Quotes

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

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"The heart wants what it wants, and it wants pain."
Samuel Beckett
"I could never love anyone who believed in me."
Samuel Beckett
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"When a man is in love, he is incapable of judging anything, even the object of his love."
Anton Chekhov
A
"We learn to love not when we find a perfect person, but when we learn to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Anton Chekhov
G
"A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it has passed, you can still rely on it to keep you warm."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
George Bernard Shaw
W
"There is another loneliness that comes from love."
William Butler Yeats
W
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
William Butler Yeats
W
"The heart loves what it loves, and no law can change the direction of its devotion."
William Butler Yeats
W
"Where love and reason are at war, love most often wins the victory."
William Butler Yeats
W
"Love is the one and only force that binds the scattered pieces of the world."
William Butler Yeats
T
"Love is a great beautifier."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Love conquers all obstacles."
Thomas Hardy
O
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
Oscar Wilde
O
"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
Oscar Wilde
O
"Anything that is overdue is romantic."
Oscar Wilde
O
"The only way to comprehend a man is to love him."
Oscar Wilde
O
"In love, as in life, the great commandment is: do not be a bore."
Oscar Wilde
J
"Love is patient, love is kind, and love is what we must cultivate."
James Joyce
J
"Love asks us to transcend ourselves."
James Joyce
L
"To love someone means to see them as God intended."
Leo Tolstoy
L
"We are asleep until we fall in love."
Leo Tolstoy
L
"I simply want to love and be loved."
Leo Tolstoy
G
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"
George Eliot
G
"Love will make a man work wonders."
George Eliot
G
"What is the particular virtue of the form of virtue or holiness that consists in putting off marriage?"
George Eliot
G
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering."
George Eliot
G
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
George Eliot
G
"To love is to choose."
George Eliot
T
"Love is a great beautifier."
Thomas Hardy