Love Quotes

Love refers to strong affection. It commonly describes a person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved, a term of friendly address, regardless of feelings, and a thing, activity etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction, sexual activity, and an instance or episode of being in love; a love affair, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Love as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young, to need, thrive on, to be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like, to derive delight from a fact or situation, and to have sex with (perhaps from make love), which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Photo of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950)

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Randy K. Milholland

(b. 1975)

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Victor Hugo

(1802-1885)