Quotes about love
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Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.
Stephenie Meyerborn 1973New Moon (2006), p. 304Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you’ll be safe then.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 143–144Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890In his letter to Theo, from Nuenen, c. 9 March 1884To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977Diary entry, 30 May 1934- Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh: The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17.
- TMThomas Merton1915–1968Love and Living (1979) Part One: Love and Living, p. 27
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “The Enemy—the Extraordinary”, p. 147- SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Roman Elegies (1789), Elegy 1- SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 6, “Of Friendship”, p. 178
Gene Wolfe1931–2019The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996), Volume 3, Ch. 4
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)