Quotes about love
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988), p. 128A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Burns (1828).My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1915), 31The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 4 “Dolphin” (p. 231)God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. X: “Heaven”Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
Ayn Rand1905–1982Apollo and Dionysus (1969)To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke1729–1797First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1933), Epilogue, p. 235There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Part I, Chapter 7Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert PublishersBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
