What Is Love Quotes - Page 2

• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• Ask not of me, love, what is love?
  Ask what is good of God above;
  Ask of the great sun what is light;
  Ask what is darkness of the night;
  Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
  Ask what is happiness of heaven;
  Ask what is folly of the crowd;
  Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
  Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
  Ask of thyself what beauty is.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Fashion

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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• Love is what you've been through with somebody.

  James Thurber

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Fall, Missing

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Sexy

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Dark, Coffins

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Heart

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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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• Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Being In Love, Inability To Love

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• Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Art, Being In Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Life, Memories

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.

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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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• The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Heart, Important

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

  Honore de Balzac

  True Love, Love Is, Infinite

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

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• What is done in love is done well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Positivity, Positive Life

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 483, 2006.

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Wall, Mean

  "Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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