Quotes about love
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Letter to Carl Jung (1906), as quoted in Freud and Man’s Soul (1984) by Bruno BettelheimLove is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988“Jubal Harshaw” in the first edition (1961)Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute- Augustine of Hippo354–430X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- Augustine of Hippo354–430Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Hero and Leander (published 1598), First Sestiad- Christopher Marlowe1564–1593First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
- SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
