- William Shakespeare: “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
- Jane Austen: “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
- Leo Tolstoy: “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
- Oscar Wilde: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
- Emily Brontë: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
- Victor Hugo: “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke: “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.”
- Paulo Coelho: “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
- C.S. Lewis: “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
- John Steinbeck: “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
- Gabriel García Márquez: “There is always something left to love.”
- Ernest Hemingway: “Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
- Kahlil Gibran: “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
- Maya Angelou: “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
- George Sand: “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
- Robert Frost: “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
- Albert Camus: “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
- Virginia Woolf: “Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.”
- Edgar Allan Poe: “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
- Emily Dickinson: “That love is all there is, is all we know of love.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
- Anaïs Nin: “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.”
- Louisa May Alcott: “Love is a great beautifier.”
- Mark Twain: “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.”
- Hermann Hesse: “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
- Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
- Simone de Beauvoir: “When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else, you surrender your own integrity.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre: “There is no love apart from the deeds of love.”
- Kurt Vonnegut: “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
- John Keats: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien: “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
- Sylvia Plath: “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
- Haruki Murakami: “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
- Charlotte Brontë: “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
- Homer: “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife.”
- James Joyce: “Love loves to love love.”
- Euripides: “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
- Plato: “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
- Bram Stoker: “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Love, and you shall be loved.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance.”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
- D.H. Lawrence: “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
- Alexander Pushkin: “I loved you; and perhaps I love you still.”
- Henry James: “Deep experience is never peaceful.”
- John Green: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
- Rumi: “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.”
- Nicholas Sparks: “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
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