Love

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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch.

- Adrienne Rich

Peggy- "Tell me you love me, Al" Al-"I love football, I love beer, let's not cheapen the meaning of the word."

- Al Bundy

What could be more repellent than to suffer the limitation of others as a desperat alternative to gazing singly at our own?

- Alain de Botton, "The Romantic Movement" ( ? )

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.

- Aldous Huxley

I'm not as dumb as you think I am, I've learned a thing or two. I don't care about nothing at all, but I think the world of you.

- All, "Think of You" ( ? )

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it

- Anatole France (1844-1924) French Writer. Le Jardin D'Epicure

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

- Anonymous

True love is like a butterfly. Once it is gone it has flown away it is nearly impossible to recapture it.

- Anonymous

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own (will), is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

- Apostle Paul

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, great. If not, it's probably having dinner with someone more attractive than you

- Bill Grieser

Who needs love when you've got a gun?

- Black Flag

"I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred."

- Bob Dylan

Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives...but the love i mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth tha prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.

- Bradley Trevor Grieve, "The Meaning of Life" ( ? )

missing me like missing you.
in a bathroom
in combination with your talking,
your eyes and smile
striving driving your flying to LA
i pppounce on memories
i evidently obsess
you will make me a purchase
comeback, schemer, non-dreamer in a dream
baby letting him eat you up
eat you owat
and not me not me here

taking this
downing that

- Brett Engle

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.

- Carole King

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.

- Charles Dickens

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.

- D.H. Lawrence

For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is pure female. She is she, and I am I, and clasped together with her, I know how perfectly she is not me, how perfectly I am not her, how utterly we are two, the light and the darkness, and how infinetly and eternally, not-to-be-comprehended by either of us is the surpassing One we make.

- D.H. Lawrence

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

- David Grayson

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

- David Seabury

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Douglas Yates

i wish i could say i lived near an ocean. i could go there when i wanted and listen and waste more time than i should. watch people and listen. eat shrimp and listen.

- Dustin Vannatter

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

- Edvard Munch

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers. Into one beautiful perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

- Edwin Arnold

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.

- Eric Fromm

"if two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it"

- Ernest Hemingway

All life is the progression towards, and the recession from, one phrase - I love you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Offshore Pirate" ( ? )

"Open Eyes, open heart, open up and fall apart"

- Finger Eleven

In Ireland you're allowed to say you love God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.

- Frank McCourt , Angela's Ashes

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at the bottom comes up.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Born to lose, I"ve lived all my life in vain. All my dreams have only caused me pain. All my life i've always been so blue. Born to lose and now i'm losing you

- Gene Pitney, "Born to Lose" ( ? )

Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible.

- Greg Jurkiewicz, "The Neo-Reconstructionist Manifesto" ( ? )

The heart is forever inexperienced.

- Henry David Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" ( ? )

One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before you, and she talks and looks exactly like the person you dreamed about. But strangest of all is that you never realized before that you had dreamed about her. Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everthing is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life: REALITY.

- Henry Miller, "Tropic of Capricorn" ( ? )

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

- Henry Van Dyke

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

- Hermann Hesse

The joy of life and its affairs of happiness digress into a pain of lost height. So, in all happiness there is sadness. That of a depressed state of losing, a time which no enjoyment can fervor the full amount because of the hidden realization of drowning in the opposites.

- Hilliary Heard

EMOTION IS DEAD!! LOVE IS GAY!! And EMO bands are just singing about Eating More Oreos!!

- Hunter Hall

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.

- Inb Abbad

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?

- Jack Handey

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

- Jamacia Kincaid, "The Autobiography of My Mother" ( ? )

I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched.

- James Frey, "A Million Little Pieces" ( ? )

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words. and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

- James Joyce

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does.

- Jeanette Winterson, "The Passion" ( ? )

I'm a dork and she's so cool, I'm ugly she's beautiful, she's so smart I'm just a fool, and I just can't figure it out, I just can't undrstand, why does she love me?

- Jeffrie Fan Club

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

- John Barrymore

Some say, 'Love means never having to say your sorry'. To me, love means never having to hear, 'Where's my friggin' rent, you lazy bastard ?!' in the first place.

- John Crocker

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises

- Johnny Rotten

My boyfriend couldn't come to the kegger tonight. He had to do Linux programming. Hell yes, I would like a beer. In fact, I NEED a beer.

- Justin'S Girlfriend

"Unconditonal" ( without conditions ), just as i am (without provisions),till death do us part (murder not acceptable),for better or for worse(and it always gets worse), now say you love me !!

- Katherine Wolf

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

- Ken Kesey

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" ( ? )

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Pleaseóa little less love, and a little more common decency.'"

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Slapstick" ( ? )

my heart you lifted, my eyes you dried, im sorry but i must say good-bye. i cried because my heart was broken, and its still stolen, im sorry because now i did the same to you, i hope you found someone whos true to you.

- L0l0

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses

- Lord Dewar

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

- Mark Overby

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its lanuage is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

- Mary Baker Eddy

I hate to laugh,I love to love.... But your love for me is so far above.

- Mosta

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

- Mother Theresa

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

- Nathaniel Branden

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it oepns up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

- Neil Gaiman

Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are.

- Nietzsche

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

- Ninon De L'Enclos (1616-1706)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.

- Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair!

- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" ( ? )

To be loved, be lovable.

- Ovid

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way that this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda

Love is being stupid together.

- Paul VelÈry

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

- Pearl Bailey

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

She is the heart that strikes a whole octave. After her all songs are possible.

- Rainer Maria Rilke -Think I'M Going For A Walk Now I Feel A Little Unsteady Dont Want Nobody To Fo

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Robert Browning

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

- Robyn_hitchcock

The road to finding "the one" is paved with a bit of promiscuity

- Ryan Erickson

Love is a beautician. It can create beauty, but also illusion. True love is natural beauty. Everylasting, and never fake.

- Sarah Bianchi

Lost and Found. Lost wife and dog. Reward for Dog!

- Screach

Lost & Found. Lost wife and dog.

- Screach

I stand on the edge of destruction emotionally ruined By the warmth I most desire I will not fall prey to love of a human kind for love is weakness; Love is the fall of every man

- Shai Hulud

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

- Sigmund Freud

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Sir James M. Barrie

Smoke and Mirrors/special effects a little fear/ a little sex that all love is/ behind the tears smoke and mirrors

- The Magnetic Fields

Last night I drempt somebody loved me: no hope -- no harm just another false alarm.

- The Smiths, "Strangeways, Here We Come" 1987 ( ? )

"...if you love enough, you'll lie a lot"

- Tori Amos

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

- Truman Capote

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you're lonely remember it's true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you.

- Unknown

"Never frown when youre down, you never know whos falling in love with your smile"

- Unknown

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

- Unknown

True love can not be found where it does not truly exists Nor can it be hidden where it truly does

- Unknown

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. It makes you so crazy you want to swallow the moon.

- Venus De Milo

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

- Victor Huge, "Les Miserables" ( ? )

Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.

- Vincent van Gogh

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.

- William Shakespeare

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking you and beat love down.

- William Shakespeare

"...Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall And a preserving sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"I don't want to live...I want to love first, and live incidentally."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.

- Frank Zappa, In Music

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint, Exupery, In Literature/Shakespeare

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

- Goethe, In Love/Marriage

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, In Humor/Dark Humor

Love comes in at the eye.

- W.B. Yeats, In Senses/Sight

Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch, and remember the smell and the fabric of your simple city dress, oh, that was so real.

- Jeff Buckley, In Music

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and there for is wing'd cupid painted blind.

- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, [Helena], In Literature/Shakespeare

Love college. Hate class.

- 8th Floor East, Duquesne University, In Education/College Life

Love is merely a maddness.

- William Shakespeare, In Literature/Shakespeare

How to please a woman? Love her, die for her, take her to dinner, miss the superbowl for her, buy her jewelery, pretend you're interested in what she has to say...How to please a Man? Show up naked, bring beer.

- Unknown, In Humor/Dark Humor

Here I sit with no one near, I'm cryyyying in my beer. Love love love just ain't a game I play. Oh no, love love love just ain't a game I play.

- The Queers, In Music/Punk

Love changes, a thug changes, and best friends become strangers.....

- Nas, In Music/Rap

Love is wrong, and girls are FUCKIN EVIL !!

- The Ataris, In Music/Punk

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

- Charles Bukowski, In Religion

Love is friendship set on fire.

- French Proverb, In Proverbs

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