Quotes about love
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Letter to Sir Robert Cecil (10 May 1593)Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III: “Divine Goodness”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 2Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward MoralityLove stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Opium (1929)She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)‘Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy DuetBut truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzeeborn 1940Slow Man (2005)If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
John Donne1572–1631Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xixFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1950)
