Quotes on Love

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

In the hope to meet_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Your love to me was like an unread book.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God