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Love is… born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!
José Martí1853–1895Amor (1887)
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815)In context
- Life & Death
- Marriage
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Table-Talk (1857)
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 5, as translated by James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961)
- Enemies
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, “Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slapstick (1976), Prologue
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
- Life & Death
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Stephen Kingborn 194711/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Down the River (1982)
- Life & Death
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
James Baldwin1924–1987The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Race
In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Paris Review interview (2010)
- Movies
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949)
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder1897–1975TIME magazine (3 February 1958)
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster (1983)
- Virtue
Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Diana, Princess of Wales1961–1997Responding to the question “Do you think Mrs Parker Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage?” in an interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
- Marriage
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)