Quotes about love
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It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 153, tr. Helen ZimmernIn context- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Morality as Anti-Nature,” § 5.3 (Ludovici trans.)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Part I, Chapter 7
Anaïs Nin1903–1977The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), p. 48- Anaïs Nin1903–1977June 1932 Henry and June
- Anaïs Nin1903–1977The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977A Spy in the House of Love (1954)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 1934He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, First Revelation, Ch. 8God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, Ch. 40- Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 86
- Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text), Chapter 48
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 1In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.