— All's Well That Ends Well
Quotes About Love
Aristotle specifies ideal ages for marriage: thirty-five for a man and eighteen for a woman, which makes love a practical arrangement timed to age. Dante describes love as the force that moves the sun and the other stars, an engine larger than domestic planning. Between the two, love covers the marriage contract, the raising of a child, the fury of an enemy, and the quiet affection of friends.
Buddha meets anger without anger and answers the stingy with generosity, making love an ethical practice. Nietzsche says love has to be learned, so it becomes a discipline. Goethe speaks of air, light, and the love of friends. Van Gogh sees peace inside the storm, which may be what love does to a troubled mind. Virgil writes that love conquers all and lets love smile at our defeat.
None of them treat love as a simple softness. It is work, it is scale, it is a motion of the heavens, and it is a child given laughter instead of a disease.
Buddha meets anger without anger and answers the stingy with generosity, making love an ethical practice. Nietzsche says love has to be learned, so it becomes a discipline. Goethe speaks of air, light, and the love of friends. Van Gogh sees peace inside the storm, which may be what love does to a troubled mind. Virgil writes that love conquers all and lets love smile at our defeat.
None of them treat love as a simple softness. It is work, it is scale, it is a motion of the heavens, and it is a child given laughter instead of a disease.
— The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Love, too, has to be learned.
— The Gay Science
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
— Diaries of Adam & Eve
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
— A Room of One's Own
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
— Northanger Abbey
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
— Les Misérables
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— The Brothers Karamazov
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
— A Tale of Two Cities
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
— A Happy Death
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
— Anna Karenina
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
— Man and Superman
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
— 1984
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— The Fellowship of the Ring
When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.
— Swann's Way
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
— The Conquest of Happiness
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
— Men Without Women
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
— The Mystery of the Blue Train
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
— Candide
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
— Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
— The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
— The Essential Rumi