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Quotations by Subject: Love
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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.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Jeanne Moreau
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #678, 08-02-06
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
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John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
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John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
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John Sheffield
Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
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Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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Karen Sunde
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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Lynda Barry
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
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Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04
Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
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Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
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Michael Masser and Linda Creed
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
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National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
The first duty of love is to listen.
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Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), O Magazine, February 2004
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Rabbi Julius Gordon
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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