Quotes on Love

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break.

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus - our Jesus himself - who said: 'You are my friends if you do what I command you'. Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fulfilment.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.