Quotes on Love

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Beware how you give your heart.

Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.