true love

The idea of true love can unnerve even the most sensible soul.  In our modern world, true love generally means "true love for now."  True love quotes generally celebrate those great loves that withstand the passage of time.

"Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes (English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, 1809-1892)
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True love has left many cynics in its wake, and this is reflected in the many disenchanted true love quotes.  True love quotes go from the hopelessly romantic to the bitterly disillusioned.

"True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence."
Henri Frederic Amiel quotes (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)
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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
Marshall McLuhan quotes (Canadian communications theorist educator, writer and social reformer, 1911-1980)
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Regardless of the interpretation of true love, there is one commonly held belief: true love is rare.  Not so true love quotes, which mirror the many aspect of true love.

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it"
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
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"Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love"
Edna O'Brien quotes (Irish writer, b.1932)
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