One Loves Quotes

147 One Loves quotes by 109 unique authors

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I… — Alfred de Musset
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves. — Lester Levenson
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. — Oscar Wilde
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and… — Saint Francis de Sales
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by… — St. Jerome
In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves. — Frederick Lenz
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. — Lawrence Durrell
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. — Thomas Jefferson
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust
One forgives to the degree that one loves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. — Alexandre Dumas
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly. — Henry James
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love… — Jonathan Safran Foer
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that… — William T. Vollmann
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them… — Leo Tolstoy
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in… — George Steiner

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