Love quotations

Beauty without the beloved is like a sword through the heart

2010-09-30T18:18:00.002+03:00

Beauty without the beloved is like a sword through the heart.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

2010-03-06T20:13:00.001+02:00

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

Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé

2010-03-06T20:12:00.002+02:00

Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé.
George Sand

Il y a seulement un bonheur dans cette vie, aimer et être aimé

2010-03-06T20:10:00.001+02:00

Il y a seulement un bonheur dans cette vie, aimer et être aimé.

Unless you are a healthy, growing individual

2010-02-27T17:20:00.000+02:00

Unless you are a healthy, growing individual – unless, as it were, you love yourself – you can't love others.
Sangharakshita, Peace is a fire

Love has only a beginning; It has no end.

2010-02-27T16:07:00.002+02:00

Love has only a beginning; It has no end.
Sant Darshan Singh (1921-1989), A Tear And A Star

It's better to lose your pride to someone you love

2009-06-20T00:08:00.002+03:00

It's better to lose your pride to someone you love,
than to lose your love because of your pride.
Be a friend of thousands, be a lover of one.
Never let go of the one who truly loves you

Only love and death will change all things

2009-06-08T14:49:00.000+03:00

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things."
Khalil Gibran - Sand and Foam

Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé

2009-06-05T17:02:00.000+03:00

French: Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé.

English: You miss one person and the whole world is deserted.
Lamartine, L'isolement

All else has long been forgotten by me

2009-05-27T10:28:00.002+03:00

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for
future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and
traditions;
Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met
there, who detain'd me for love of me;
Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long
been forgotten by me;
I remember, I say, only that woman who passionately clung to me;
Again we wander—we love—we separate again;
Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go!
I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.

Walt Whitman - Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City

Can miles truly separate you from friends?

2009-05-23T21:23:00.001+03:00

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

We only part to meet again

2009-05-23T21:22:00.001+03:00

We only part to meet again.
John Gay

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

2009-05-23T21:21:00.000+03:00

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
Doug Fetherling

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness

2009-04-28T10:36:00.002+03:00

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness. All those happy in the world are so because of their desire for happiness for their happiness of others.

Shantideva, Bodhicarayavatara ("Entering into the Bodhisattva Way of Life" - translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew. Skilton, 1996).

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά

2009-04-23T00:42:00.001+03:00

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά
για να μην τρέχουμε μέσα στη νύχτα να συναντηθούμε.
Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Έρωτας

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.

2009-03-05T19:35:00.005+02:00

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Φυλάξου από τους παροξυσμούς της αγάπης σου, πολύ εύκολα ο μοναχικός απλώνει το χέρι του σε ’κείνον που αγαπά.
Φρίντριχ Νίτσε, Έτσι μίλησε ο Ζαρατούστρα, «Για τον δρόμο του δημιουργού», σ. 106, μετάφραση Άρης Δικταίος

And be on thy guard against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him!

2009-03-05T19:33:00.002+02:00

English: And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
German: Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we are in love

2009-03-03T23:35:00.002+02:00

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Sigmund Freud

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams

2009-03-03T02:21:00.001+02:00

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Dr. Seuss

Take away love and our earth is a tomb

2009-02-13T00:12:00.000+02:00

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

-Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet.

Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love

2009-02-13T00:11:00.001+02:00

Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

-William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright. From "Hamlet," Act 2, Scene 2

Οι άνθρωποι όταν λένε «σ’ αγαπώ», αγαπάνε τον εαυτό τους

2009-01-12T12:10:00.000+02:00

Χρειάστηκε να περάσουν πολλά χρόνια για να καταλάβω ότι οι άνθρωποι όταν λένε «σ’ αγαπώ», αγαπάνε τον εαυτό τους και όχι αυτόν στον οποίον απευθύνουν την κουβέντα. Είναι μια ιδιότυπη μορφή Αττικής σύνταξης – εκτός Τριανταφυλλίδη.

Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος, Τι γίνονται οι λέξεις όταν μεγαλώνουν, εκδ. Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2008

http://sstavropoulos.blogspot.com/

What is the energy of compassion?

2009-01-07T12:24:00.000+02:00

Now we shouldn’t see compassion as some romantic concept, but ask ourselves: “What is the energy of compassion?“ In order to answer that you first have to ask yourself: What is the basic principle of thinking, of the mind? It is black-white, either-or, me or you. For compassion we just have to change one word: me AND you. That is the process of compassion. Whenever there’s “me and you”, there’s a state of stillness. Stillness is not the absence of noise; stillness is the process of you and me at the same time. Not forgetting me, and not forgetting you either, nothing else. And then I ask you: if you look at the world, if you look at your life, is there even one reason for not having the connection “me and you” every day, with everyone? There is absolutely no reason. When you see that, in that compassion automatically you’ll have the chain of feelings, the out-of-body consciousness, modern meditation and the inner state of stillness. That is all you need in this life.
Manuel Schoch, (1946 - 2008)
http://www.tune-in.ch/download/en/talk_in_Hamburg_english.doc

It is not enough to love passionately; you must also love well

2008-12-07T22:29:00.001+02:00

My children, it is not enough to love passionately; you must also love well. A passionate love is good doubtless, but a beautiful love is better. May you have as much strength as gentleness; may it lack nothing, not even forbearance, and let even a little compassion be mingled with it. You are young, fair and good; but you are human, and because of this capable of much suffering. If then something of compassion does not enter into the feelings you have one for the other, these feelings will not always befit all the circumstances of your life together; they will be like festive robes that will not shield you from wind and rain. We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.
Anatole France, Honey-Bee

The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love

2008-12-04T11:20:00.000+02:00

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget".
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Three passions have governed my life

2008-12-04T11:19:00.000+02:00

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge

2008-12-04T11:18:00.000+02:00

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Love and kindness are never wasted

2008-12-04T11:16:00.000+02:00

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

Love at first sight is easy to understand

2008-12-04T11:15:00.001+02:00

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom

Can science explain first love?

2008-12-04T11:14:00.000+02:00

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein

In love relationships there is a fine line between pleasure and pain

2008-12-01T11:05:00.001+02:00

In love relationships there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. In fact it is a common belief that a relationship without pain is a relationship not worth having. To some pain implies growth. But how do we know when the growing pains stop and the pain pains begin? Are we masochists or optimists if we continue to walk that fine line?
-Carrie Bradshaw

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses

2008-11-22T15:47:00.001+02:00

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all

2008-11-20T02:15:00.003+02:00

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself

2008-11-20T02:15:00.001+02:00

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Πιστεύω πως χωρίς έρωτα ο άνθρωπος μπορεί να ζήσει μια χαρά

2008-10-30T02:24:00.001+02:00

Πιστεύω πως χωρίς έρωτα ο άνθρωπος μπορεί να ζήσει μια χαρά. Ιδίως αν έχει δοκιμάσει την απάτη, μπορεί να μην αισθάνεται καθόλου την έλλειψή του. Αλλά χωρίς στοργή τα πράγματα είναι δύσκολα και ο κόσμος άδειος. Όταν υπάρχει στοργή, μπορεί να μην υπάρχει έρωτας - σου φαίνεται πως τίποτα δεν λείπει. Αν μάλιστα απ' αυτό κινδυνεύει η στοργή επιβάλλεται έρωτας να μην υπάρχει. Πάντως το ίδιο πρόσωπο για να χαρίζει και τα δυο, μάλλον αποκλείεται. Γι' αυτό συνήθως η στοργή αναπτύσσεται ανάμεσα σε πρόσωπα του ίδιου φύλου ή συγγενικά, όπου δεν ξεφυτρώνει κάθε τόσο το ερωτικό εμπόδιο. Εξάλλου, ούτε και συ ο ίδιος μπορείς να χαρίζεις και στοργή και έρωτα στο ίδιο πρόσωπο. Αν συμβαίνει να το νομίζεις αυτό, απλώς τυφλώνεσαι απ' την επιθυμία και ξεγελάς τον εαυτό σου. Ίσως όμως να μην μπορούν να συνυπάρξουν μέσα σου, ούτε και στην περίπτωση που προέρχονται από διαφορετικά πρόσωπα. Ο έρωτας είναι ή μάλλον έχει καταντήσει καθαρή ιδιοτέλεια, ενώ η στοργή δεν αποβλέπει σε τίποτε τέτοιο.

Γιώργος Ιωάννου, Ώρα για το κουκούλι
Από τη συλλογή πεζογραφημάτων, Για ένα φιλότιμο (1964)

Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

2008-10-26T22:09:00.000+02:00

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you
The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you
Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond
'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone.
Immortal Technique, You Never Know

We are each of us angels with only one wing

2008-10-26T18:58:00.001+02:00

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.
Luciano De Crescenzo

Nunc scio, quid sit Amor (Now I know what love is)

2008-08-06T01:35:00.000+03:00

Nunc scio, quid sit Amor
(Now I know what love is)
Vergil, Eclogues, poem 8, line 43

Love expects nothing

2008-06-10T18:43:00.001+03:00

Well, what does work then? The only thing that works (if we really practice) is a desire not to have something for myself but to support all life, including individual relationships. Now you may say, "Well, that sounds nice, I'll do that!" But nobody really wants to do that. We don't want to support others. To truly support somebody means that you give them everything and expect nothing. You might give them your time, your work, your money, anything. "If you need it, I'll give it to you."Love expects nothing. Instead of that we have these games: "I am going to communicate so our relationship will be better," which really means, "I'm going to communicate so you'll see what I want." The underlying expectation we bring to those games insures that relationships won't work. If we really see that, then a few of us will begin to understand the next step, of seeing another way of being. We may get a glimpse of it now and then: "Yes, I can do this for you, I can support your life and I expect nothing. Nothing."

Relationships Don't Work - from Everyday Zen: Love & Work by Charlotte Joko Beck from Amazon com

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace

2008-06-10T18:36:00.000+03:00

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Saint Francis of Assisi

I have spread my dreams under your feet

2008-06-10T00:14:00.000+03:00

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known

2008-06-04T21:06:00.002+03:00

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known.
Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles A. Lindbergh

Long after moments of closeness have passed

2008-06-04T21:05:00.002+03:00

Long after moments of closeness have passed
A part of you remains with me
And warms the places your hands have touched
And hastens my heart for your return.
Robert Sexton

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

2008-06-04T21:05:00.001+03:00

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

There is no remedy for love but to love more

2008-06-04T21:03:00.000+03:00

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Vous qui souffrez parce que vous aimez, aimez plus encore

2008-06-04T21:01:00.001+03:00

Vous qui souffrez parce que vous aimez, aimez plus encore. Mourir d’amour, c’est en vivre…
Victor Hugo

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere

2008-05-19T14:29:00.000+03:00

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
Rumi

We must love one another or die

2008-04-06T20:59:00.001+03:00

There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
W. H. Auden

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

2008-01-30T00:39:00.003+02:00

Perché il veramente innamorato chiede la continuità, la vitalità dei rapporti? Perché la vita è dolore e l'amore goduto è un anestetico, e chi vorrebbe svegliarsi a metà operazione?
Cesare Pavese

Why does the person who is truly in love seeks the continuity, the lifelong duration of relationships? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic, and who wants to wake up in the middle of an operation?
Cesare Pavese
[English translation by Spiros Doikas]

Γιατί ο αληθινά ερωτευμένος ζητά τη συνέχεια, το ισόβιο των σχέσεων; Διότι η ζωή είναι οδύνη και η απόλαυση του έρωτα είναι αναισθητικό, και ποιος θέλει να ξυπνήσει στη μέση μιας εγχείρησης;
Τσέζαρε Παβάζε
[Μετάφραση: Σπύρος Δόικας]

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet

2008-01-25T19:55:00.000+02:00

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet

Various translations:

Let those love now, who've never loved,
Let those who've loved, love yet again.

Ας αγαπήσουν τώρα εκείνοι που δεν αγάπησαν ποτέ
Και εκείνοι που αγάπησαν, ας αγαπήσουν ξανά.

Tomorrow may he love who has never loved, whoever has loved, may he love tomorrow

From PervigiliumVeneris

Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.
Ver novum, ver iam canorum, vere natus orbis est,
Vere concordant amores, vere nubunt alites,
Cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum
Implicat casas virentes de flagello myrteo
Cras Dione iura dicit fulta sublimi throno.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Tunc cruore de superno spumeo pontus globo
Caerulas inter catervas, inter et bipedes equos
Fecit undantem Dionem de maritis imbribus.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum floridis,
Ipsa surgentes papillas de Favoni spiritu
Urget in toros tepentes, ipsa roris lucidi,
Noctis aura quem relinquit, spargit umentis aquas.
En micant lacrimae trementes de caduco pondere:
Gutta praeceps orbe parvo sustinet casus suos.

En pudorem florulentae prodiderunt purpurae:
Umor ille, quem serena astra rorant noctibus.
Mane virgineas papillas solvit umenti peplo.
Ipsa jussit mane ut udae virgines nubant rosae:
Facta Cypridis de cruore deque Amoris osculis
Deque gemmis deque flabris deque solis purpuris
Cras ruborem, qui latebat veste tectus ignea,
Unico marita voto non pudebit solvere.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet

Ipsa nymphas diva luco jussit ire myrteo:
It puer comes puellis: nec tamen credi potest
Esse Amorem feriatum si sagittas vexerit.
Ite, nymphae; posuit arma, feriatus est Amor

Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet

Iussus est inermis ire, nudus ire iussus est,
Neu quid arcu, neu sagitta, neu quid igne laederet.
Sed tamen, nymphae, cavete, quod Cupido pulcher est:
Totus est in armis idem, quando nudus est Amor.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet

Conpari Venus pudore mittit ad te virgines.
Una res est quam rogamus: cede, virgo DeIia
Ut nemus sit incruentum de ferinis stragibus.
Ipsa vellet te rogare, si pudicam flecteret,
Ipsa vellet ut venires, si deceret virginem.
Iam tribus choros videres feriantis noctibus
Congreges inter catervas ire per saltus tuos,
Floreas inter coronas, myrteas inter casas.
Nec Ceres, nec Bacchus absunt, nec poetarum deus.
Detinenter tota nox est perviglanda canticis:
Regnet in silvis Dione: tu recede, Delia.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Iussit Hyblaeis tribunal stare diva floribus;
Praeses ipsa iura dicet, adsidebunt Gratiae.
Hybla, totus funde flores, quidquid annus adtulit
Hybla, florum sume vestem, quantus Aetnae campus est
Ruris hic erunt puellae vel puellae fontium
Quaeque sllvas, quaeque lucos, quaeque montes incolunt
Iussit omnes adsidere pueri mater alitis,
Iussit et nudo puellas nil Amori credere

Cras amet qui numqnam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Et recentibus virentes ducat umbras floribus.
Cras erit quom primus Aether copulavit nuptias,
Et pater totis crearet vernis annum nubibus:
In sinum maritus imber fluxit almae coniugis,
Unde fetus mixtus omnis aleret magno corpore.
Ipsa venas atque mentem permeanti spiritu
Intus occultis gubernat procreatrix viribus,
Perque caelum perque terras perque pontum subditum
Pervium sui tenorem seminali tramite
Inbuit iussitque mundumque nosse nascendi vias.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet

Ipsa Troianos nepotes in Latinos transtulit:
Ipsa Laurentem puellam coniugem nato dedit,
Unde Ramnes et Quirites proque prole posterum
Romuli matrem crearet et nepotem Caesarem;
Moxque Marti de sacello dat pudicam virginem
Romuleas ipsa fecit cum Sabinis nuptias

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Rura fecundat voluptas, rura Venerem sentiunt;
Ipse Amor, puer Dionae, rure natus dicitur.
Hunc, ager cum parturiret, ipsa suscepit sinu:
Ipsa florum delicatis educavit osculis.

Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras [amet.

Ecce iam subter genestas explicant agni latus,
Quisque tutus quo tenetur coniugali foedere.
Subter umbras cum maritis ecce balantum greges:
Et canoras non tacere diva iussit alites.
Iam loquaces ore rauco stagna cygni perstrepunt:
Adsonat Terei puella subter umbram populi,
Ut putes motus amoris ore dici musico,
Et neges queri sororem de marito barbaro.

Illa cantat, nos tacemus. Quando ver venit meum,
Quando fiam uti chelidon, ut tacere desinam?
Perdidi Musam tacendo, nec me Phoebus respicit.
Sic Amyclas, cum tacerent, perdidit silentium.
Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

Love as nurturing spiritual growth

2007-12-22T15:40:00.001+02:00

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity... Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom... love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled (Arrow New-Age)

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate

2007-11-10T19:09:00.003+02:00

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
Alf Whit

When love beckons to you, follow him

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When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions
May wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
As the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you
So shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth
So is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses
Your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and
Shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Each man kills the thing he loves

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
from all let this be heard.
Some does it with a bitter look,
some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss
the brave man with the sword

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.

Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol

What will survive of us is love

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What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin, An Arundel Tomb

Unconditional love

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I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

They must be felt with the heart

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Where love rules, there is no will to power

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
C. G. Jung

Time will come that all that we love

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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually loose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
F. Sionil José, Mass (a Filipino novel)

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

2007-10-27T18:51:00.002+03:00

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

Love loves to love love

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Love loves to love love.
James Joyce, Ulysses

When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love

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When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love.
St. John of the Cross

To die for lack of love is horrible

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The love we give away is the only love we keep

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love

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May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love.
Robert Heinlein

Real love is always fated

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Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
Joshua Harris

Love is giving someone the power to hurt you

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Love is giving someone the power to hurt you but trusting him/her not to.
John Albert Halili

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry

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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life

2007-10-27T12:44:00.001+03:00

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love" in Anarchism and Other Essays (1911)

And think not you can direct the course of love

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And think not you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Khalil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself

2007-10-27T12:43:00.001+03:00

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Have you ever been in love

2007-10-27T12:42:00.001+03:00

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
Neil Gaiman

If a person loves only one other person

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm, Art of Loving (1957)

I've made the most important discovery of my life

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I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.
John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind

I love love

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I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
The Format, Inches and Falling

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled

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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison, Title of book (1968)

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected or betrayed

2007-10-27T12:36:00.001+03:00

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected or betrayed or apparently not loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray, and do not love.
Adi Da

If you have the courage to love then you should have the courage to suffer too

2007-10-26T19:01:00.003+03:00

If you have the courage to love then you should have the courage to suffer too.
E.H. Majaw

He is not a lover who does not love forever

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

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Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together

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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas

Love does not consist in gazing at each other

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself

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To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself.
James Stephen Cathcart

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love

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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

Love cannot accept what it is

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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus

Real love is a pilgrimage

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

There is no fear in love

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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.
The Bible, 1 John 4:18

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language

2007-10-26T18:51:00.001+03:00

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting

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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
Woody Allen

Love doesn't make the world go round

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Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald

Love is only half the illusion

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Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

Two solitudes come nearer

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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin [Elizabeth Comber]

The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love

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