Quotes about love
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Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12
Bruce Lee1940–1973The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 64
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVI
Anatole France1844–1924La Bûche [The Log] (November 30, 1859)
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Salomé (1893)
W. H. Auden1907–1973Homage to Clio (1960), “First Things First”, st. 5The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus1913–1960A Happy Death (written 1936-38 (published in 1971, over 11 years after the author’s death))A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martinborn 1945As Harris K. Telemacher in L.A. Story (1991)Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965A Writer’s Notebook (1946), p. 13Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!
Colley Cibber1671–1757The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.
Richard Bachborn 1936The Bridge Across Forever (1984)