Quotes about love
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Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque”, Ch. 3.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Golden Notebook (1962), Anna Wulf, in “Free Women: 2”In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xxiv
Upton Sinclair1878–1968Love’s Pilgrimage (1911)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Pt. III, The Lover’s Errand.
Arthur Miller1915–2005Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et Pensées, #158Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645Dokkodo (1645)This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
Malala Yousafzaiborn 1997Speech to the UN Youth Assembly (12 July 2013)Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menLovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
