Explore Quotes on Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.