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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 21 Quotes About Love
Li St. Michael
Keyword: Quotes About Love
Love was an equal opportunity employer long before the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s.
There are countless quotes about love on the web; mostidentify with the human reactions to
loveinstead of love’s absolute nature. An ever-present theme in many quotes about love is that love
brings out the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of human nature. In many cases, these so-called
quotes about love are really telling the tales of human imperfection as it pushes against the glass of an
easily obtainable but unrecognizable door.
Here are 21 quotes about love that give voice to all of these ideas.
1. “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”- Andre Breton, French writer
2. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the
same direction.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer
3. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”- H. L. Mencken, American journalist
4. “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” - Anais Nin,
French/Cuban author
5. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”- Woodrow Wyatt, British journalist
6. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out
in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers." - Maya Angelou, American poet
7. “Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”- Iris Murdoch,British author
8. “The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as
many for love.”- Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist
9. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato, Greek philosopher
10. “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”- Helen
Rowland, American journalist
11. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
12. “Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.” - Swedish Proverb
13. “Love is the poetry of the senses.”- Honore de Balzac, French Novelist and Playwright

2. 14. “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.” - James Earl
Jones, Actor
15. “Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”- George
Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
16. “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”- Barbara
Johnson, Literary Critic
17. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you
courage.”- Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher
18. “To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”- Francois Mauriac, French Author and
NobelPrizelaureate
19. “Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”- Franklin P.
Jones, reporter and humorist
20. “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” - William Somerset Maugham,
English Playwright and novelist
21. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”- Ingrid
Bergman, actress