“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
“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.”
“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
“If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”
“If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.”
“What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.”
“Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.”
“I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
“For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
“Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.”
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.”
“Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.”
“Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
“Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.”
“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
“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.”
“My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.”
“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.”
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.”
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
“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.”
“A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.”