Famous Quotes About Love From Famous Humans

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Some quotes are forgotten; while others go on to make history. Some become so famous that they acquire the status of platitudes. These platitudes then go on to become adages. Here are a few famous quotes about love that have become legends in their own right.

Famous Quotes About Love

Rabindranath Tagore: I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Emily Dickinson: That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Katherine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Charles Dickens: Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Mohandas K. Gandhi: Love never claims, it ever gives.

Sir Winston Churchill: Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has yet been found. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Plato: He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Robert Browning: What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Emily Bronte: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Carl Jung: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Leo Tolstoy: He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

William Shakespeare: I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.

Albert Einstein: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Mark Twain: Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.