Quotes about love
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The length of one’s days matters less than the love of one’s family and friends.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Statement just before becoming the longest lived U.S. President as quoted in “Ford eclipses Reagan as oldest ex-president” in USA Today (10 November 2006)Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
Stendhal1783–1842La Vie d’Henri Brulard (1890)Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow1915–2005Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ], p. 84Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
Thomas Hardy1840–1928The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), Ch. 20
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III- Stendhal1783–1842De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 1
Rita Rudnerborn 1953Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14: Love, p. 203- Rita Rudnerborn 1953Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)
Anne Sexton1928–1974“Admonitions to a Special Person” (1974), from Last Poems- IMIris Murdoch1919–1999“The Sublime and the Good”, in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Household Papers and Stories (1864), Part 2, Ch. 4.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024According to Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96 (November 26, 2023)
Tom Lehrer1928–2025That Was the Year That Was (1965), Introduction to “National Brotherhood Week”