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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 Publishers
- Happiness
The father of a woman whom we love is never a stranger to us.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume III: Marius, Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man, Chapter XXIn context
- Family
Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning, Chapter IVIn context
- Life & Death
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.
Leigh Hunt1784–1859Abou Ben Adhem (1834)In context
- Charity
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.
Leigh Hunt1784–1859Jenny Kiss’d Me (1838)In context
- Age
Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14: Love, p. 203
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Marriage
- Women
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Marriage
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)In context
- Women
Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was⁠—petticoat government.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
- Comedy
- Marriage
Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.
NJNikolaus Joseph von JacquinOften credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Genius
With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.
William James1842–1910The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 1: The Scope of Psychology (1918 edition)
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John, 13:34–35 KJVIn context
- Christianity
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), John 3:16 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
- God
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Enemies
- Forgiveness