Quotes on Love

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

One of my first races came over 10km in 2002. I won that race and it felt great. I would say that is when I first fell in love with running.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

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.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.