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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore1882–1942How to Be a Perennial Juvenile (1941)
- Women
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
DGDavid Grayson1870–1946
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It’s a wonder that we don’t make love to every single person we meet.
Yoko Onoborn 1933
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. III
- Life & Death
Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Music
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Happiness
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain1835–1910‘s Notebook (1935)
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act IIIIn context
- Marriage
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Marriage
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Marriage and Morals (1929)