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Deep Love Quotes — 136 Deep Love Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks · The heart of her argument that love is something we do, from the chapter that defines it.

No matter how painful distance can be, not having you in my life would be worse.

An unsigned line shared on long distance quote lists at Paired and Flowercard, both marking it Unknown.

I thought at first waiting would grow easier later, but every day I need you more.

Zelda Fitzgerald · Zelda Sayre in Montgomery to Scott Fitzgerald in New York during their 1919 engagement, from Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli · From his novel of the two nations, rich and poor.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Stephen Chbosky · Mr. Anderson's answer when Charlie asks why nice people choose the wrong people to love; Charlie asks it again of himself at the end.

Love is holy because it is like grace; the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson · The old minister John Ames, writing to his small son.

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

Kahlil Gibran · The opening of "On Love" in The Prophet, Almustafa's answer when Almitra asks him to speak of love.

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Milan Kundera · The narrator on Franz and Sabina, whose love rests on the idea of the Grand March.

I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.

Catullus · The source reads: “Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.” · The whole of poem 85, two lines on Lesbia, the most famous couplet in Latin.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal · From the autobiography he left unfinished.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche · Zarathustra in the discourse "On Reading and Writing," in Walter Kaufmann's wording; Thomas Common's 1909 version ends "some method in madness."

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin · Heather to George Orr, in the novel about a man whose dreams change the world.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne · On his friend Étienne de La Boétie, in the essay on friendship.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning, never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh · The closing stanza of his poem on the pilgrimage to Walsingham.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

The Bible · The source reads: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” · 1 John 4:18, from the letter that also says "God is love" (1 John 4:8); the familiar form is the New International Version, the King James Version of 1611 is in the notes.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

Attributed to Frances Ridley Havergal · Carried under the Victorian hymn writer's name in every collection, without the poem or book being named.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From the sermon on loving your enemies.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From the sermon on loving your enemies.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

Blaise Pascal · The source reads: “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.” · Fragment 277 of the Pensées, quoted for every love that logic cannot explain.

I feel as if my being were dissolved and the idea of you were diffused throughout it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne to his fiancée Sophia Peabody from Salem, May 26, 1839, during their long engagement.

What we have once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller · The source reads: “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. A sunset, a mountain bathed in moonlight, the ocean in calm and in storm—we see these, love their beauty, hold the vision to our hearts. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” · From her small book of consolation for the grieving, written in 1929; the record has it as three sentences, and the one-sentence form everyone shares first appeared in a 1990 book on coping with the loss of a baby.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin · The Jesuit scientist on love as the force that draws the universe together.

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