Amor Quotes

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Lauren Groff

Cease

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Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.

Deborah Harkness

Pain, Healing, Dying

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If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beautiful, Kings, Mind

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness, Different, Want

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

Dante Alighieri

Stars, Moving, Sun

Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies

Cassandra Clare

Love Never Dies, Infernal Devices, Dies

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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

Jose Marti

Love Is, Sane

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Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

Herman Melville

May, Helping, Remember

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4237, Delphi Classics

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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

Benjamin Rush

Country, Religious, Character

Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

Elif Safak

Sex, Plato, Distance

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Past, Greatness

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love, Kissing, Fire

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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Dante Alighieri

Stars, Moving, Desire

Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

Hannah Arendt

Gratitude, Book, Years

Hannah Arendt (1992). “Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Correspondence, 1926-1969”, Harcourt

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By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

Ovid

Art, Moving, Light

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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Ovid

Love, Herbs, Can Not

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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

Ovid

Love, Yield, Age

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The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Juvenal

Increase, Quantum, Avarice

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[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

Jon Pareles

Fun, Musician, Hemisphere

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Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Virgil

Yield, Love Conquers All, All Things

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Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Love, Quitting, Knows

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The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Real, Character, Individual Choice

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Now I'm a warrior Now i've got thicker skin I'm a warrior I'm stronger than i've ever been And my amor Is made of steel you can't get in i'm a warrior And you can never hurt me again

Demi Lovato

Hurt, Warrior, Skins

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For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.

Lauren Oliver

Past, People, Waiting

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.2, Harper Collins

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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Want, Looking Away

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.223, Vintage

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