Quotes on Being In Love

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

There is always some madness in love.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together_x000D_ But we sure make it feel like we're together._x000D_ Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.