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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Jonathan Swift

Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Simone Weil

Philosopher · French · 1909 – 1943

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader · American · 1929 – 1968

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

Saint · 354 – 430

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Poet · Roman

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lawyer · American · 1833 – 1899

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lawyer · American · 1833 – 1899

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Philosopher · French

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

William Shakespeare

Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

Dramatist · Russian · 1860 – 1904

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

President · American · 1856 – 1924

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Poet · English · 1770 – 1850

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

William Penn

Leader · English · 1644 – 1718

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

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