Love famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.
-- Alexander Koch -
Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.
-- Alexander Lowen -
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings
-- Alexander Lowen -
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
-- Alexander Scriabin -
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith -
It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
-- Alfre Woodard -
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
-- Alfred Adler -
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
-- Alfred de Musset -
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
-- Alfred de Musset -
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.
-- Alfred de Musset -
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
-- Alfred de Musset -
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
-- Alfred de Musset -
I am the Love that dare not speak its name.
-- Alfred Douglas -
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
-- Alice Cary -
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
-- Alice Hoffman -
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She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.
-- Alice Munro -
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
-- Alice Walker -
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker -
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My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
-- Alicia Vikander -
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.
-- Alvan Macauley -
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
-- Ambrose -
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
-- Ambrose -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
-- Amelia B. Edwards -
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
-- Amelia Barr -
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Amelia Barr -
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.
-- Ammon Hennacy -
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
-- Amor Towles -
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Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
-- Amrit Desai -
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
-- Amy Grant -
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
-- Amy Hempel -
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Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
-- Amy Poehler -
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
-- Amy Tan -
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
-- Amy Tan -
Whatever it is that makes you the person you are - that's what I love. All of it.
-- Amy Vincent -
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Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
-- Anacreon -
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
-- Anacreon -
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin -
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-- Anais Nin -
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
-- Anais Nin -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
-- Anais Nin -
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
-- Anais Nin -
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
-- Anais Nin -
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
-- Anais Nin -
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
-- Anais Nin -
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
-- Anais Nin -
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin -
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
-- Anais Nin -
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
-- Anais Nin -
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
-- Anais Nin -
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
-- Anais Nin -
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
-- Anais Nin -
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
-- Anais Nin -
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-- Anais Nin -
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Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.
-- Anais Nin -
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
-- Anais Nin -
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-- Anais Nin -
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
-- Anatole France -
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- Anatole France -
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France -