Quotes about love
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Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 23 (tr. C. Day Lewis); Dido acknowledging her love for Aeneas.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Love’s Language”, Poems of Progress 1913 edition
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Lover’s Tale (1879), line 466
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Second Talk in Poona (10 September 1958), J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 580910, Vol. XI, p. 20Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love’s location.Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919The Way (1913).The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by Joan Riviere (1961)Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 412 (tr. Fitzgerald)True love’s the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heavenThe cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Giaour (1813), Line 1099.Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919New Thought Pastels (1913), LoveWomen and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
