CURATED COLLECTION

Falling in Love

The experience of falling in love is irrational, overwhelming, and remains the most written-about thing in all of literature.

50 quotes found

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

—Jane AustenNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The moon in the sky, a silver bowl. My love’s face, a brighter sun.

—Mahsati GanjaviPoet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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I am Mahsati, famed in love, my heart aflame with desire.

—Mahsati GanjaviPoet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love set me on fire and I was glad to burn.

—Zeynep HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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I have fallen in love with the ocean of existence.

—MirabaiPoet

Renaissance ERA • South Asia

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You will love again the stranger who was your self.

—Derek WalcottPoet & Playwright

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

—Torquato TassoPoet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou.

—Omar KhayyamMathematician, Astronomer & Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Some say an army of horsemen, some infantry, some a fleet of ships is the finest thing on earth — I say it is whatever you love.

—SapphoLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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The whole world is looking for love, and it's looking for a way to express it.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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In His love, I am lost and found. My existence is but a whisper in His vastness.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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To live without love is to be a soulless body, a garden without flowers.

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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I wasn’t in love with her anymore, but I was still in love with the idea of her.

—F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Love is like a long journey. You leave and you don't return.

—Marguerite DurasNovelist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Love is the wine of existence; whoever has known it deeply has drunk divinity.

—Delmira AgustiniPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Latin America

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I am a pagan worshipper of love; the creed of Islam is not for me.

—Amir KhusrowMusician, Poet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • South Asia

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo NerudaPoet & Diplomat

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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We are all condemned to love someone who doesn't love us.

—Elena GarroPlaywright, Novelist & Journalist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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