Explore Quotes on Love

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Every great love starts with a great story.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.