Quotes
Quotes about Love
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
Love is a great beautifier.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
