Love Quotes

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

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"Love is the only law that transcends all others."
Emily Brontë
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"I am eternal in my love for you."
Emily Brontë
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"The man who has never hoped cannot love."
George Bernard Shaw
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"If you cannot achieve your dreams, you can always fall back on loving someone."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
George Bernard Shaw
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Oscar Wilde
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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
Oscar Wilde
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others."
Oscar Wilde
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
Oscar Wilde
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"It's a curious thing about the object of true love. It strikes me that it never really changes in essence."
Oscar Wilde
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"That's the very essence of romance, that it lasts an instant and changes everything."
James Joyce
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"He went the way he had come, haunted by the thought of her."
James Joyce
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"He loved her with a love that was both terrible and beautiful."
James Joyce
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"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
Anne Brontë
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"Love without trust is merely a beautiful lie."
Anne Brontë
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"Love is both a fire that warms and a fire that burns."
Anne Brontë
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"Love is the only force powerful enough to bridge our fundamental isolation."
Anne Brontë
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"To love is to expose oneself to the possibility of unbearable suffering."
Thomas Hardy
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"Love that requires perfection from the beloved is not love but tyranny."
Thomas Hardy
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"To love unwisely is still to love, and that is its own kind of wisdom."
Thomas Hardy
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"The most honest love is that which acknowledges the otherness of the beloved."
Thomas Hardy
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"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"
George Eliot
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"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults."
George Eliot
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"A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts."
George Eliot
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"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
Emily Brontë
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Emily Brontë
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"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in your power to feel, I would be yours."
Emily Brontë
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"I wish I could live in your heart and occupy it wholly and exclusively."
Emily Brontë
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"To love is to run the risk of loss."
Emily Brontë
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"To be wholly known is to be wholly loved."
Emily Brontë