Quotes and Sayings About Love
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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