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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours
to command.
Alan Watts
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts
dead.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the
complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in
madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding
families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in
her way.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may
often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of
marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they
have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from
age.
Jeanne Moreau
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering
that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living
inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
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