On Love
On Love
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus
She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.
--Jean Stafford
A friendship that's like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
--Thomas Moore
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
--Martin Luther King
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need -- tremendous self control.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
--Antoine de SaintExupery ("Wind, Sand, and Stars", 1939)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
It is impossible to love and be wise.
--Francis Bacon
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
--Pierre-Augustin De Beaumarchais
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.
--Lord Byron
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
--Mother Teresa
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
--Anonymous
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
--Daisaku Ikeda
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
--Anonymous
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
--Anonymous
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
--La Rochefoucauld
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
--Dinah Shore
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
--The Bible
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
--Sophocles
Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
--Novalis Hardenberg
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 anything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
--Henry David Thoreau
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
--Woody Allen
For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
--Rosemonde Gerard
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
--Rose Franken
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
--Adlai Stevenson
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
--Kahlil Gibran ("The Prophet")
Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
--William Goldman ("The Princess Bride")
Love -- a grave mental disease.
--Plato
Man loves little and often, Woman much and rarely.
--Basta
If I love you, what business is that of yours?
--Goethe
Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a little while.
--Westley ("The Princess Bride" by William Goldman)
When you're in love, it's the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life.
--Richard Lewis
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
--Jules Renard
We cannot really love somebody with whom we never laugh.
--Agnes Repplier
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
--Lily Tomlin
Love is a kind of war-fare.
--Ovid
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Mougham
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand different versions.
--La Rochefoucauld
Love is the only game not called on account of darkness.
--Anonymous
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--Anonymous
Pains of Love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
--John Dryden
The way to love anything it is to realize that it might be lost.
--G.K. Chesterton
Love is merely a madness....
--William Shakespeare
We don't love qualities, we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
--Jacques Maritain
Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
--Robert Frost
To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
--Lennon/McCartney