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Quotations by Subject: Love
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.: Alan Watts
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.: David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
There is no remedy for love but to love more.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
We can only learn to love by loving.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

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