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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 4 “Dolphin” (p. 231)
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 249)
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
Bruce Lee1940–1973The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 64
I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that.
Tom Lehrer1928–2025That Was the Year That Was (1965), Introduction to “National Brotherhood Week”
- Comedy
Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.
John Lennon1940–1980
Love is needing to be loved.
John Lennon1940–1980
What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Golden Notebook (1962), Anna Wulf, in “Free Women: 2”
- Work
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Ch. VI: “Charity”
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Forgiveness
- Theology
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Answers to Questions on Christianity
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Pilgrim’s Regress
- Sex
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
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. X: “Heaven”
- God
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- God