Quotations About / On: LOVE

  • 31.
    Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Tetka, in Libussa, act 1 (1872).)
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  • 32.
    We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
    (Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 1 (1944, revised 1951).)
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  • 33.
    A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    (Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist. "Time Regained," vol. 12, ch. 1, Remembrance of Things Past (1927), trans. by Stephen Hudson (1931).)
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  • 34.
    Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
    (Octave Mirbeau (1850-1917), French journalist, author. "The Manuscript," The Torture Garden (1899).)
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  • 35.
    In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 392, "An Element of Love," (1878).)
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  • 36.
    About children's caregivers ... you want someone who is loving but not so loving you're displaced.
    (Kathleen Christensen (20th century), U.S. professor, environmental psychology. Wall Street Journal (May 21, 1993).)
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  • 37.
    There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 136 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 38.
    Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
    (José Bergamín (1895-1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 38, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).)
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  • 39.
    It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 370 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 40.
    Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
    (Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist. Man for Himself, ch. 4 (1947).)
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