Love & Romance: Love Quotes

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"The beloved is the ultimate fetish"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them"

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"Love is always being given where it is not required"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

Vincent Van Gogh

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back"

Henri Matisse, Artist

Henri Matisse

"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives"

Mother Teresa, Leader

Mother Teresa

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Gradually, I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

Paulo Coelho

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

Heinrich Heine

"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"Love dies only when growth stops"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Free love? As if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

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