Quotes on Love

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.