Quotes about love
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Bertrand Russell1872–1970Interview, Face to Face, BBC (1959)Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1933), Epilogue, p. 235True love’s the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven
Anne Sexton1928–1974“Admonitions to a Special Person” (1974), from Last Poems
William Shakespeare1564–1616Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act III, scene 2, line 163.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
