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Quotes about Love


Love is blind, as the saying is, Cupid's blind, and so are his followers

He had strapped onto a soldierly back the burden of dying for love

Knowledge is no friend of love

A boy needs his mother, needs her warmth and love and protection

Your life was empty and you needed to fill it up again. So you chose the socialist cause. As a substitute for love. Not very flattering to the socialist cause

You can't love the dead. All you love is the memory ...

God gave his creatures the most tremendous endowment, the thing most like his own essence - I mean freedom of choice. If he knows in advance what his creatures are going to do, then he's denying them freedom. So he deliberately blacks out foreknowledge. God could know, if he wished, but out of respect and love for his creatures, he refuses to know. Can you imagine a more awesome gift than this - God denying himself out of sheer love?

Are we to be no more than brute beasts howling in perpetual heat? Can we not learn that love of the spirit that transcends the lust of the flesh? Love, love, let us have love

The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order

Hell is an emanation of God's justice. But we believe that his love is greater than his justice. Hell has to exist ... but there may be nobody in it

Why could he do nothing for his brother, whom he loved, yet be an agent of divine mercy for a total stranger?

I give my love, my devotion. But I take it you've begun to want more

I give my love, my devotion. But I take it that you've begun to want more

Marriage and love are not the same thing

Love is great and the professing of love is not done lightly

May one say that God is a laughing God and dearly loves a jest?

I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.

I loved a soul and if the soul did not die neither did love

Do more than write farces and sensational fiction. Construct something in which to believe. Love and beauty are not enough

The war has been a means of bringing out men's goodness. Self-sacrifice, courage, love of comrades

He loves his creature so well that He grants them the gift of his own essence - utter freedom

Love should be a lasting thing, and faith and love should go together

[T]hough love is thus an end in itself, it must be believed to be the means to another end if it is to assume the rosy hues of an unalloyed pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

For this Love is enraged with me, Yet kills not ; if I must example be To future rebels, if th' unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill, and dissect me, Love ; for this Torture against thine own end is ; Rack'd carcasses make ill anatomies.

John Donne

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