What is love: quotes from poets, thinkers, celebrities


I love you because the whole Universe contributed to our meeting. Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

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If I know what love is, it's thanks to you. Hermann Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

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Love forgives everything, except for voluntary absence. Stendhal, "About Love"

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Love had no meaning at all. But she gave meaning to everything else. Victor Pelevin, “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf”

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Love, like fire, goes out without food. Grigory Pechorin (M. Yu. Lermontov, “Hero of Our Time”)

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Remember one thing, boy: you will never, never and never again be funny in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her sake. Gottfried Lenz (E.M. Remarque, “Three Comrades”)

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Whatever our souls are made of, his soul and mine are one. Catherine Earnshaw (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)

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You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upward. (M. Gorky, “Foma Gordeev”)

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One word frees us from all the heaviness and pain of life. This is the word love. Sophocles

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You can close your eyes to what you see. But you can’t close your heart to what you feel. Friedrich Nietzsche

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The plucked flower should be given as a gift, the poem you started should be completed, and the woman you love should be happy, otherwise you shouldn’t take on something you can’t do. Omar Khayyam

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  • Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A woman is created in order to love her, and not in order to understand her. Oscar Wilde

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is even the slightest reaction, both elements change. Carl Gustav Jung

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Perhaps in this world you are only a person, but for someone you are the whole world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  • Life is too short to ruin it with diets, greedy men and bad moods! Faina Ranevskaya

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All people in the world are divided into two categories. It’s easy with the first ones, just as easy without them. It’s very difficult with the latter, but it’s completely impossible to live without them. Ernest Hemingway

Quotes from great people about love

“Love is like a fever, it comes and goes regardless of your will.” Stendhal

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“Love is a wild force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to comprehend it, it confuses us." Paulo Coelho

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“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for who we are, or despite the fact that we are who we are.” Victor Hugo

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“I discovered a paradox: if you love until it hurts, then the pain goes away and only love remains.” Mother Teresa

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  • “A woman knows the face of her lover as a sailor knows the open sea.” Honore de Balzac

The eternal mystery of love: quotes from great people

  • Love is the most mystical feeling. Some say that these are biochemical processes, some compare this feeling with Cupid's arrows, others with the kiss of Aphrodite.

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To love means to see a person as God intended him to be. (F.M. Dostoevsky).

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Love is a competition to see who can bring each other more joy. (Stendhal).

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When you love, it always seems that this is your first and last love. (Eugene Marbot).

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Quotes about love are a great opportunity to hint to your loved one about your feelings, to unobtrusively open up. Take the chance that love statements give you to show off your new status.

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This page contains aphorisms and quotes about Love, free from dogma and judgment.

— it is in such aphorisms that the world around us is reflected as in a mirror.
The authors of these words know what they are talking about. Therefore, unlike most aphorisms and quotes about Love, which fill your mind with other people's concepts, these words, on the contrary, free you
from everything superficial, as a result of which free space appears in your mind for the most important thing - for Creativity.


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Love, and not German philosophy, serves as an explanation of this world. Oscar Wilde
To love means to stop comparing. Bernard Grasse
Loving means looking not at each other, but together, in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Does loving mean looking in one direction? Perhaps, but only if he and she don't watch TV. Gilbert Sesbron
We can get rid of illness with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love. There are many people in the world who die of hunger, but there are even more who die because they lack love. Mother Teresa
The surest way to win the love of others is to give them your love. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To love means to find your own happiness in the happiness of another. Gottfried Leibniz

Love runs away from those who chase it, and falls on the neck of those who run away. William Shakespeare
Unrequited love is as different from mutual love as error is from truth. George Sand

Love never asks, it always gives. Swami Vivekananda

A person's demand to be loved is the greatest of all conceits. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is more honest than trust, and the deceived lover deserves not pity, but surprise and respect. Andrey Platonov

Unrequited love does not humiliate a person, but elevates him. Alexander Pushkin

Ultimately, love is nothing more than a reflection in people of a person’s own merits. Ralph Emerson
You need to have something in common to understand each other, and be different in some way to love each other. Paul Geraldi

One hour of love contains a whole life. Honore de Balzac

If you start by sacrificing yourself for those you love, you will end up hating those you sacrificed to. Bernard Show

Love for one's neighbor is limited by how much each person loves himself. Aurelius Augustine

There is only one love, but there are thousands of counterfeits. Francois La Rochefoucauld

One day I met a beggar in love on the street. He was wearing an old hat, his coat was frayed at the elbows, his shoes were leaking, and the stars were shining in his soul. Victor Hugo
Love is the only passion that cannot stand either the past or the future. Honore de Balzac
Love, which is not born every moment, always dies. Kahlil Gibran
Love is worth exactly as much as the person who experiences it is worth. Romain Rolland

When it seems to us that we know another, this always means the end of love. Max Frisch
Any love that has its cause not in freedom of spirit, but in something else, easily turns into hatred. Benedict Spinoza
Love is greater than the one who loves. Joseph Brodsky

True love always creates and never destroys. And this is man’s only hope. Leonardo Buscaglia
Just one great love in a lifetime justifies the causeless attacks of despair to which we are subject. Albert Camus

As soon as I see you, I’m not able to utter a word. But the tongue immediately goes numb, a slight heat quickly runs under the skin, the eyes look, seeing nothing, and there is a continuous ringing in the ears. Then I’m covered in heat, all my limbs are covered in trembling, the grass becomes greener, and it’s as if I’m saying goodbye to life. Sappho

It is better to be a slave to the beloved than to be free to the unloved. Eric Bern

To love means to see a miracle invisible to others. Francois Mauriac

Love is the child of illusion and at the same time the mother of disappointment. Miguel de Unamuno

I've never liked the men I've been in love with, and I've never been in love with the men I've liked. Fanny Brice

We seek the love of others in order to have an extra reason to love ourselves. Denis Diderot

There is no pain greater than that which lovers inflict on each other. Cyrille Connolly
Each of us is half of a person cut into two parts, and therefore everyone is always looking for the half that corresponds to him. Therefore, love is a thirst for wholeness and a desire for it. Plato
Love is all. And that's all we know about her. Emily Dickinson
To be loved, the best thing to do is to be beautiful. But to be beautiful, you need to be loved. Francoise Sagan

I've always said that a woman should be like a good horror movie: the more left to the imagination, the better. Alfred Hitchcock
Nothing hinders a romance more than a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it. Oscar Wilde

Place me like a seal on your heart, like a ring on your hand: for love is strong as death... Song of Songs

Love is such a long pursuit, for which one life is insignificant. Love is the willingness to spend eternity together. Mikhail Epshtein
What we experience when we are in love is perhaps our normal state. Falling in love shows a person what he should be. Anton Chekhov
Love cannot be an end in itself, otherwise it loses all meaning. Mother Teresa
The lover is more divine than the beloved because he is inspired by the gods. Plato
To resist love is to provide it with new weapons. George Sand

Love is like mercury: you can hold it in an open palm, but not in a clenched hand. Dorothy Parker

Women generally remember only those men who made them laugh, and men only remember those women who made them cry. Henri de Regnier

Love is the only reasonable and satisfactory answer to the question of the meaning of human existence. Erich Fromm

Women are created to be loved, not to be understood. Oscar Wilde
Love is like a mirror. When you love another person, you become his mirror, and he becomes yours. Leonardo Buscaglia
I want to be loved or to be understood - which is the same thing. Bettina Arnim


Beloved! let us love one another, because love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love has not known God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8

To someone who has fallen in love for the first time, it seems that he knows everything there is to know about life - and, perhaps, he is right. Minion McLaughlin

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Quotes about love with meaning

  • Love is the universal energy of life, which has the ability to transform evil passions into creative passions. (Nikolai Berdyaev).

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Every man loves only once between the ages of twelve and fifteen. Then he just repeats this love again and again. (Kurt Goetz).

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A man always wants to be a woman's first love. Women are more sensitive in such matters. They would like to become a man's last love. (Oscar Wilde).

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A man is always afraid of a woman who loves him too much. (Bertolt Brecht).

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Beware of love: if you love too much, you will become a toy; and if they love you very much - a tyrant. (Mario dei Gazlini).

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  • Sometimes love unites two creatures, each of whom lives on his own island and does not know how to swim. (Noel Clarazo).

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Wise words, like a glimmer of light piercing the clouds, illuminate the mind and heart, make you appreciate love in a new way, understand its essence and purpose.

Best Quotes

A woman only believes the word “love” when it is said quietly and simply. I. Galan

Love never demands, it always gives. Love always suffers, never expresses protest, never avenges itself.M. Gandhi

A coward is incapable of showing love, this is the prerogative of the brave.M. Gandhi

The true essence of love is to renounce the consciousness of oneself, to forget oneself in another “I” and, however, in this disappearance and oblivion to find oneself and possess oneself.G. Hegel

Love! This is the most sublime and victorious of all passions! But its all-conquering power lies in boundless generosity, in almost supersensible selflessness. G. Heine

Love becomes a moral sin when it becomes the main occupation. It then relaxes the mind and causes the soul to degrade.K. Helvetius

Love is a lofty word, the harmony of creation requires it, without it there is no life and cannot be.A. I. Herzen

Love is a lush, graceful flower that crowns and ends an individual life; but he, like all flowers, must be open with one side, his best side towards the sky.A. I. Herzen

Love and friendship are a mutual echo: they give as much as they take.A. I. Herzen

The proximity of the beloved shortens time.I. Goethe

The first love of unspoiled youth is always aimed at the sublime. Nature seems to want one sex to sensually perceive the good and beautiful in the other.I. Goethe

Love that is afraid of obstacles is not love.D. Galsworthy

Great love is inseparable from a deep mind.I. A. Goncharov

Life without love is not life, but existence. It is impossible to live without love; that is why the soul was given to man, to love.M. Bitter

Life is arranged so devilishly skillfully that, without knowing how to hate, it is impossible to sincerely love.M. Bitter

True love strikes the heart like lightning and is silent like lightning.M. Bitter

More beautiful than the sun - there is no God in the world, there is no fire - the fire of love is more wonderful! M. Bitter

Love is the desire to live.M. Bitter

The consequences of love are always the same - a new person! I’m not talking about a child, but about people who love, because this feeling renews the soul, makes people different, better, more beautiful.M. Bitter

Love is the mutual change of lovers, the change of both towards each other.D. Granin

Love always surpasses faith in it. Everyday words: if you knew how much I love you! - contain a deep and endless truth.V. Humboldt

Quotes from great people about love at first sight

Do you believe that love can happen at first sight? Is it possible just by looking at a person to understand that he is destined for you by fate? That only he is your soulmate?

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The hardest thing to heal is the love that flared up at first sight. (Jean La Bruyère).

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Falling in love at first sight is like looking at the sun, first you are blinded, and then you begin to see clearly. (Andrey Kharenko).

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The most amazing thing about love at first sight is that it happens to people who have seen each other for years. (Jean Anouilh).

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You can trust love at first sight in much the same way as a diagnosis at the first touch of your hand. (George Bernard Shaw).

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