Quotes about love
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Colley Cibber1671–1757Xerxes, Act IV, sc. iii (1699).Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!
Colley Cibber1671–1757The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968), “On Becoming”Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Opium (1929)
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994), tr. Alan R. Clarke (1996)- Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988), p. 128Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988), p. 157.- Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988)- Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
- Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)