Quotes about love
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
O! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
William Morris1834–1896The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), “Summer Dawn”
Moses1393–1273 BCDeuteronomy 6:4-5 (KJV)- MMuhammad571–632Narrated in Ibn Majah, #1978, and Al-Tirmizi, #3895.
- IMIris Murdoch1919–1999“The Sublime and the Good”, in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645Dokkodo (1645)Love is the idler’s occupation, the warrior’s relaxation, and the soverign’s ruination.
Napoleon1769–1821Letter to Joséphine de Beauharnais (February 1796), as translated in Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine 1796-1812 (1901) edited by Henry Foljambe Hall
