Everyday Quotes

“Love conquers all, and we must yield to it.”
– Virgil

“What is love? Ask the living what life is; ask the believer what God is.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Love is the fabric of nature embroidered by imagination.”
– Voltaire

“Love is the most harmonious melody among all harmonies: its feeling is innate.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Love is the oldest, newest, unparalleled world event.”
– Friedrich Rückert

“Love is the pastime of the idle, the entertainment of the warrior, and the leisure of the ruler.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Love is the silk of the soul, the velvet bloom of the heart, whose seed is planted in every heart by creation, but which blooms into a magnificent flower in only one heart out of a thousand.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is a fervent forgetfulness of everything outside itself.”
– Victor Hugo

“Love is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I truly love one person, I love all people, I love the world, I love life.”
– Erich Fromm

“There is no purer heart than one that is willing to soil its hands for others.”
– Naoko Takeuchi

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.”
– William Shakespeare

“Love is not one, but the only way to be happy.”
– Francoise Sagan

“If you hate someone, consider whether it is worth it; but if you love someone, never question whether it is worth it.”
– Lucian Blaga

“Those we love almost always have more power over us than we have over ourselves.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We always love those who admire us, and not always those whom we admire.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not proper to love someone we would be ashamed to take as a spouse.”
– Stendhal

“There are women who are not beautiful, but only appear to be.”
– Karl Kraus

“Love drives away time. Time drives away love.”
– Annie Girardot

“In the flames of love, even the hardest iron must melt.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
– Francois Mauriac

“To love someone is more than a strong feeling—it is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.”
– Erich Fromm

“We only learn to love by being loved.”
– Iris Murdoch

25. “When the heart speaks, the mind must not argue.”
– Milan Kundera

“Love begins with a metaphor. That is, love begins when a woman engraves her first words in our poetic memory.”
– Milan Kundera

“When two people love each other, it is the most important thing, a miracle, and the most natural thing in the world. I felt this today, when the night suddenly turned into a blooming bush, and the wind smelled of strawberries, and I realized that without love, we are only vacationing dead, a few data points and a random name, and nothing more, we might as well die.”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“Sudden love takes the longest to heal.”
– Jean de La Bruyére

“Lies kill love. But only honesty truly kills it.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Tell me, what sways a man over a woman? The lover and the suitor do it the same way: a thousand false words and one half-truth.”
– Lope De Vega

“Love is like a fever; it is born and passes away without any participation of the will.”
– Stendhal

“I do not seek those fleeting passions that dazzle, consume, or burn; I call, await, and long for the great, sacred, profound, and serious love, sustained by all the inclinations and strength of the soul. And if I must remain alone, I would rather preserve my hope and dream than bargain away my soul.”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“To love and be loved is like having the sun shine on you from both sides.”
– David Viscott

“We seek someone whose company allows us to follow our first thought without ever having to worry about propriety.”
– Stendhal

“The heart knows no emperor’s command.”
– Friedrich Schiller

“Too easy success soon robs love of its charm; obstacles raise its value.”
– Stendhal

“Love cannot be sought, it can only be encountered.”
– Voltaire

“Love is a beautiful flower, but one must have the courage to approach the edge of the cliff for it.”
– Stendhal

“To love does not mean to look at each other, but to look together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Great love fears even a tiny doubt; and where fear is great, great is the love.”
– William Shakespeare

“He who is bound by love will never be free.”
– Sextus Propertius

“It is better to painfully miss someone you love than to be with someone you do not.”
– Jean de La Bruyére

“There is nothing I love more than what is just beginning; and including love, I know nothing that surpasses the delight of first feelings.”
– Paul Valéry

“Some hearts can only be reached by inflicting a wound.”
– Stendhal

“We deceive ourselves if we tie the higher goals of life to a stormy emotion like love.”
– Pierre Curie

“I hate and I love. Why? I do not know, but I feel it, and it tears my heart apart.”
– Caius Valerius Catullus

“When you’re in love, you’re not in your right mind, because if you were, you wouldn’t be in love.”
– Publilius Syrus

“Love is more appealing than marriage, just as a novel is more amusing than history.”
– Nicolas Chamfort

“Why is it that everyone wants to hear the least original sentence? ‘I love you’ has been said countless times, yet when we say it, we are like primitive humans who found a word and began to revere it with devotion.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“It’s not enough to be a lover. It’s everything to be in love.”
– Paul Géraldy

“In love, there is no sin or offense. There are only errors of taste.”
– Paul Géraldy

“Love is conquering, possessing, and preserving a soul that is strong enough to elevate us, yet weak enough to need us just as much as we need it.”
– Paul Géraldy

“What you seek in love is nothing more than friendship.”
– Paul Géraldy

“Love reveals its deepest secrets and wonders only to those capable of unconditional devotion and emotional fidelity.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The true test of a relationship is that, even when you disagree, you don’t let go of each other’s hands.”
– Alexandra Penney

“Love is a fruit that is always in season and available to everyone.”
– Mother Teresa

“First love never fades away, but it always comes to an end.”
– Paulo Coelho

“It’s always surprising how a small moment in life can turn into a significant memory. It often ends before it even begins, yet it makes the person it stems from unforgettable.”
– Anna and the King (Movie)

“Love is the longing for our lost half.”
– Milan Kundera

“Love begins with love; even the strongest friendship can only develop into a weak love.”
– Jean de La Bruyère

“Love is the worst thing in the world. It makes you crazy; you stop caring about yourself. Everything changes its meaning, and you’re capable of the greatest foolishness, ruining your life in a single moment.”
– Mario Vargas Llosa

“What is love? A long opportunity for suffering, for which a thousand tears are not enough, and it always demands more.”
– Mihai Eminescu

“Love is not what a man or a woman desires; it is the great third force that does not yet exist but wants to be.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you want to keep someone in your life, never take their presence for granted.”
– Richard Bach

“An insignificant woman, when in love, sees for the first time the possibility of beauty within herself.”
– Joanne Harris

“The day we let true love into our hearts, everything we thought was neatly arranged becomes tangled, and all that we held as right and true is shaken.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love is the only thing that can cause such pain that we fear to love again.”
– Play It Again, Life (Movie)

“The opposite of loneliness is not merely not being alone. It’s intimate closeness.”
– Richard Bach

“Sometimes, we need to be alone so that someone’s absence makes us miss them and fall in love with them again.”
– Andrew Matthews

“Life only has meaning if there’s someone to share your feelings with.”
– Paulo Coelho

“I am not an Eastern despot. I don’t need a white neck, crimson lips, rosy cheeks, or hair curled in beautiful waves without the Promethean fire of the spirit. Only that tiny flame will shine even when roses and lilies wither and youthful hair turns gray.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“There’s always someone in the world waiting for their match, whether in a desert or a bustling city. And when these people meet, their eyes lock, and all past and future loses significance. Only that moment and the incredible certainty exist that the same Hand wrote everything under the sun. The Hand that awakens Love also creates a soul akin to everyone working, resting, or searching for their treasure in this world.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The only thing that truly changes a person is love.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love is like a drug. At first, you experience euphoria, completely surrendering to the feeling. Then, the next day, you want more. You’re not yet addicted, but it felt so good that you think you can control it. If you think of the loved one for two minutes, you can forget them for three hours. But slowly, you become hooked, thinking of them for three hours and only forgetting them for two minutes. If they’re not around, you feel as miserable as an addict without their dose. And, just like an addict, you’d do anything—steal, humiliate yourself—to get what you need.”
– Paulo Coelho

“You who suffer because you love, love even more! To die of love is to live life fully!”
– Victor Hugo

“Love is just a cheap trick nature plays on us to ensure the survival of our species.”
– William Somerset Maugham

“Her presence is as pleasant to my mind as the scent of fresh hay and fragrant flowers, as the red glow of the setting sun, or the calm of a midsummer evening is to my senses.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“Through the gaps in the curtains, the moonlight filters into the room, softly illuminating her face. I can’t help but stare. A strange feeling rushes over me, and suddenly, I feel incredibly happy. My heart starts racing, and dizziness washes over me, even though I’m lying down.”
– Patricia Schröder

“Stand close together, but not too close, for the trees do not grow in each other’s shadow.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Those we don’t love, we hurt with ourselves; those we love deeply, we hurt with ourselves.”
– Eleven Hold

“Love is like fire: if you don’t tend to it and nurture it, it will go out.”
– Mikhail Lermontov

“If you want to love someone, love them here and now. Love them! Because no one knows what will happen in the next moment.”
– Tara Brand

“The magic of first love is the ignorance that it could ever end.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Whoever loves… believes in the impossible.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The fire that no longer burns quickly dies. Only the love that scorches and blinds deserves its name.”
– Juliette Drouet

“A woman increasingly knows that she can only achieve fuller self-realization through love, just as a man begins to sense that only the spirit gives true meaning to life. In essence, they both seek mutual spiritual connection because the love of spirit and the spirit of love demand fulfillment.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“Just as there are many kinds of flowers, there are many kinds of love: strawflowers that never wither, dandelions waiting to be scattered by the wind, or blood-red mountain lilies that release their sweet scent in a single day only to wilt by nightfall. None possesses all the beauty of every flower.”
– Ralph Iron

“There is the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the bridge is love—the only survivor, the only meaning.”
– Thornton Wilder

“Love is like mercury in the hand. Hold your palm open, and it stays. Close it, and it escapes immediately.”
– Dorothy Parker

“Love is the wine of existence.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“It is impossible to regret love. The sin of love does not exist.”
– Muriel Spark

“Among all forms of caution, the caution exercised in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell

“For a woman, it is a misfortune never to be loved, but a tragedy never to have loved.”
– Dorothy Dix

“The love of one human being for another is perhaps the most difficult task assigned to us. It is the ultimate test, the final trial, and the proof for which all other experiences are merely preparation.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Man and woman are two jewel boxes, each containing the key to the other.”
– Karen Blixen

“We can never lose what once brought us joy. All those we love deeply become a part of us.”
– Helen Keller

“Passionately thinking about another human being always causes more sorrow than joy. Yet, no one can go without experiencing it.”
– Agatha Christie

“A romantic relationship is like spinning a baton, twirling a ribbon, or eating with chopsticks: it looks easy until you try it.”
– Helen Rowland

“Love is fire. But will it warm your heart if it burns your house down? Don’t bet on it!”
– Joan Crawford

“There’s nothing more beneficial for the mind and body than a romantic entanglement. It ennobles thoughts and definitely slims you down.”
– Barbara Howar

“In the mathematics of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“When love comes, it arrives effortlessly, like a soft southern breeze bringing large drops of refreshing, warm rain.”
– Helen Yglesias

“Love cannot survive if you only offer it fragments of yourself, your time, or your thoughts.”
– Mary O’Hara

“Love is the folly of the wise and the wisdom of the foolish.”
– Samuel Johnson

“As I see it, love opens the doors to the universe, most importantly to the door leading to one’s deepest self—often terrifying and overwhelming in its true form.”
– May Sarton

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Sensuality often rushes the growth of love, leaving its roots weak and easily uprooted.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“How helpless we are, like birds caught in a net, when desire takes hold of us!”
– Belva Plain

“The more you love someone, the more they demand from you, and the less you can give, because you’ve already given them your love.”
– Nikki Giovanni

“No one can truly understand love who hasn’t experienced its madness. And no one can fully comprehend the madness of love, no matter how many times they’ve felt it.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“‘Do you know what friendship is?’ (…) ‘It’s when two people are like siblings; their souls merge but don’t mix, like two fingers on a hand.’ (…) ‘And what is love?’ (…) ‘It’s when two become one. When man and woman merge into an angel. That is heaven.'”
– Victor Hugo

“Love is a misunderstanding, the unachievable demand for completeness.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“Our efforts to avoid love often cause more pain than the sorrows of love itself.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

“The brain and heart are like the two bulbs of an hourglass: when one fills, the other empties.”
– Jules Renard

“I never confessed my love in words, but if glances could speak, even the dullest fool would have known I was head over heels in love. Finally, she understood and returned my gaze with the sweetest glance of all. Yet, what did I do? Shamefully, I drew into myself like a snail. With every glance of hers, I became colder until she doubted her senses, assuming it was her mistake. Humiliated, she persuaded her mother to leave. My capricious behavior branded me as a heartless adventurer, a title I alone know I don’t deserve.”
– Emily Brontë

“In reality, love must be possible. It may not be immediately reciprocated, but it can only survive if there’s at least some hope—however distant—that we can win the affection of the one we love.”
– Paulo Coelho

“No one can lie or hide their feelings while looking someone else in the eye. And no woman can fail to read the truth in a man’s eyes when he is in love, even if that love seems impossible and surfaces at the worst place, at the worst time.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The sharpest hunter in the world is love.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Zahir in Arabic means visible, present, something that cannot go unnoticed. It’s something or someone that, once encountered, gradually occupies our minds until we can think of nothing else. It can be sanctity or madness.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love is three-quarters curiosity.”
– Gian Giacomo Geronimo Casanova

“Love is more tied to the absence of the other than to togetherness.”
– Paulo Coelho

“If you’ve been in love for more than two years, you’re taking something.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Love is like a commuter ticket to the heaven-hell route.”
– Don Dickerman

“Love is not in the other person; it is within us. We awaken it in ourselves. But to do so, we need the other person.”
– Paulo Coelho

“What is love? There’s nothing in the world—neither man nor devil—upon which I look with as much suspicion as love, because it ingrains itself in the soul more than anything else. Nothing else so powerfully takes hold of and captivates the heart as love. Therefore, if you have nothing to counter it, love will utterly drive your soul to ruin. If not properly equipped and received too fervently, even the love that permeates the soul will either falter over time or wreak havoc. Oh, love is multifaceted: upon its arrival, the soul first softens, then falls ill.”
– Umberto Eco

“I love the ground she walks on, the air she breathes, and everything she touches. I love every glance, every movement of hers; I love her wholly and completely.”
– Emily Brontë

“We’ve all cried out in despair at some point: ‘This love isn’t worth the suffering.’ We suffer because we feel we give more than we receive. We suffer because others don’t recognize the weight of our love. We suffer because we cannot make others follow our rules. There’s always something to suffer about, but in truth, there’s no reason for it: the seed of our growth lies in love itself. Those who love conquer the whole world and are not afraid of losing anything. True love is the act of complete surrender.”
– Paulo Coelho

“But I love him! I’ve loved him for years. Love can’t turn into indifference in a single moment. Yet it can, and it did. It never really existed; it was only in my imagination. I never truly loved Ashley, only the dream prince I had created. I loved someone I made up, and now he’s as dead as Melly. I imagined someone, dressed him in beautiful clothes, and fell in love with him… And then Ashley came along, sunlight on his hair, sitting so gallantly on his horse, smiling at me even though he was so different. I draped him in those clothes, whether they fit or not, along with all my beautiful dreams. And I refused to see him as he truly was. I kept loving the clothes, not him, not at all.”
– Margaret Mitchell

“I’d rather suffer as I have before, when those I loved left me. I’d rather lick my wounds, as I always do. For a time, I’ll think about her, grow bitter, and bore my friends to death, unable to talk about anything other than how my wife left me. Then I’ll try to explain what happened, obsessively analyzing every moment we spent together. In the end, I’ll conclude that she was indeed unfair to me, even though I always tried to make her happy. Then there’ll be other women. Every time I walk down the street, I’ll see someone who might be her. From morning until night, night until morning, I’ll suffer. This state may last weeks, months, or over a year. One day, though, I’ll wake up and realize she’s no longer in my thoughts. I’ll know I’m over the worst of it. My heart will bear a heavy scar, but it will heal, and I’ll be able to appreciate the beauty of life again. It has happened to me before, and I know it will happen again.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love makes us great and glorious. It sees not with the eyes, but with the heart—thus Cupid is painted winged and blind.”
– William Shakespeare

“Love is often a game where both players alternately believe they will lose and therefore try to cheat.”
– Paul Léautaud

“I imagine you walking down the empty street, waiting for the trolleybus in the spring darkness, then traveling home on the subway. Tonight, I’ll stay up with you until you make it home across the city. Darling, while you travel, I’ll sit here in the sleeping house, where only one lamp is lit, thinking through everything I believe about you.”
– Irwin Shaw

“Oh, that peace, that indescribable peace, of feeling safe with someone else, where we don’t need to weigh our thoughts or measure our words, but can pour them all out, wheat and chaff together, knowing that a faithful hand will sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
– George Eliot

“Love is one of the great forces that govern fate, its dominion spanning from heaven to hell.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“Sometimes, I wonder if men and women are truly suited to each other. Perhaps they should live next door and occasionally visit.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“With you, I am prouder than anyone; yet in one way, I’m a beggar: you could take everything from me and leave me utterly destitute.”
– William Shakespeare

“Tell me, what is love? Two souls, one thought; two hearts, one beat.”
– Friedrich Halm

“Do not lie, do not steal, do not cheat, do not drink. But if you drink, let it be the true words of your beloved. If you steal, let it be a sweet kiss. If you lie, let it be a kind one. And if you cheat, let it be a smile on their face, and you’ll never be disappointed.”
– Hitch (Movie)

“Love should not ask too many questions because, the moment we start thinking, we also start fearing. This fear is inexplicable, and it’s not worth trying to put into words. Maybe we fear rejection, mockery, or breaking the spell. It might sound ridiculous, but it’s true. That’s why love should act, not question.”
– Paulo Coelho

“A man’s happiness: ‘I want!’ A woman’s happiness: ‘He wants.'”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The essence of courage is not that your heart doesn’t tremble, but that others never see it trembling.”
– Edward Frederic Benson

“The fairy-tale prince never appeared, and then you came. You restored my faith—not with poetry and flowers, but with flaws and absence, standing tall. And there’s something, something in you, something between us, that won’t let me rest.”
– Shakira

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
– Charles Dickens

“No one can guarantee their love will last forever. The only guarantee you can offer is for the present moment—and if things change, you owe honesty and integrity to your feelings.”
– Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks

“Love is like the wind: you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”
– A Walk to Remember (Movie)

“Love often finds its way to places where reason cannot reach, igniting a fire that blinds the wisest of hearts.”
– May Sarton

“The mystery of love outweighs the mystery of death.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Sensuality often rushes love, leaving its roots shallow and easily uprooted.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Desire makes us helpless, like birds caught in a net.”
– Belva Plain

“The deeper the love, the greater the demand, and the less you can give, because you’ve already given all of yourself.”
– Nikki Giovanni

“Suffering arises from expecting to be loved in the way we imagine—rather than allowing love to manifest freely, untamed, in its full strength, guiding us and preventing us from standing still.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Behold, young love does not spark in the heart, but in the eyes.”
– William Shakespeare

“An angel calls it heavenly joy; a devil calls it hellish torment; a human calls it love.”
– Heinrich Heine

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time, challenging each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common—they adored each other.”
– The Notebook

“Love! Who could build a barrier against you?”
– Virgil

“On this earth, everyone has their treasure waiting for them. But remember, only those who listen to their hearts will find the true treasure.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love is not a cheap thing, and we must guard against making it so ourselves. Our flaws—our selfishness, cowardice, so-called experience, stinginess—all aim to convince us not to take love seriously. But love only rewards us when we take it seriously.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The most devoted and faithful love is also the most beautiful, and we must never ask what could make love easy.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“Mutual love that remains unspoken is merely a glass wall—a wall that only a love confession can shatter.”
– Tsubasa Chronicle

“As a child, I always liked the wrong women. When we went to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White—I immediately fell for the Evil Queen.”
– Woody Allen

“Can you see what that simple miracle does to me every night, falling asleep beside me and waking up next to me? If I were deprived of this, something more terrifying than death would happen to me. I won’t give it up unless they ask me to.”
– Vavyan Fable

“I cannot talk about them without talking about myself. It sounds selfish; in reality, it is this unity that defines love. I’ve never felt anything comparable to this and know for certain that I never will, simply because it’s beyond measure: already so dazzling it almost hurts.”
– Vavyan Fable

“There’s no greater miracle to offer than love. Nothing can replace it. I love them, and since it happened to me, I am no longer myself—not as I used to be. I am more vulnerable, and by its nature, love can wound me, too—a careless word or gesture can cause pain, just as the opposite brings indescribable joy.”
– Vavyan Fable

“I want them to be happy. It doesn’t matter with whom or how. May they find someone who cherishes them and loves them as I should have. May they find someone who sees them as I do now.”
– Bruce Almighty

“I must know if there’s hope. Half the night I sighed in wakeful dreams. Tomorrow, I’ll finally see your hand, your eyes, your lips.”
– A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song

“Ah, love looks so gentle to the eye, but it’s a rough tyrant when close by.”
– William Shakespeare

“Behold the marvel of civilization! Love has been made utterly ordinary!”
– Antoine Barnave

“Love is always different. It doesn’t matter how many times we fall in love in our lives—once, twice, or ten times. Each new love is unknown. Love will either hurl you into the depths of hell or elevate you to heaven. One thing is certain: it will take you somewhere. And we cannot refuse it, for it is a condition of existence.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Then came the deep, fiery sigh, as they stole each other’s glances eagerly, cheeks aflame for no reason at all.”
– George Gordon Byron

“But no matter how it pretends, it’s the gloomy shadow that betrays, like darkened skies reveal the storm. Not a word escapes the lips.”
– George Gordon Byron

“Soulmate. Two little words, and one big idea. It means believing that somewhere there’s someone holding the key to your heart and the door to your dreams. All you have to do is find them. But where?”
– Sex and the City

“Never! Has Your Majesty ever considered what that means—what a dreadful word it is for someone in love?”
– Jean Racine

“What can’t friendship and love accomplish?”
– Jean Racine

“When I read about such things, I wonder: is she really there? I wonder what she calls herself now? Does she still have her freckles? Will I ever get another chance? I wonder, but I don’t despair. (…) I know I’m being watched. The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I wake up to each day, and in the evenings, I feel it’s not just the stars that watch me from the sky.”
– Jerry Spinelli

“If you wish, you can be different from the rest. The beautiful, poetic love that carries you into the world of dreams—that alone can bring happiness on earth!”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“We run to our beloved like a little schoolboy happily tossing his books aside, and leave feeling as sullen as that same schoolboy trudging back to school.”
– William Shakespeare

“You are not master of hating or loving, for the waters of desire drive you, and that is fatal. (…) Hesitation is merely the shadow of love; who has ever truly loved without it being at first sight?”
– Christopher Marlowe

“In itself, the feeling of sexuality, compassion, and adoration share this: by pursuing one’s own pleasure, one also does good for another.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“There must be someone else beyond you in whom I still reside. Why else would I have been created if all of me were contained in what you see here?”
– Emily Brontë

“Hope has raised its fragile head, and I will guard it carefully, because without love a person’s soul would wither away.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“The greatest meaning in my life is him. If everyone else perished and he remained, I would continue on through him! But if everyone else remained and he were destroyed, the entire world would feel foreign to me—I would no longer sense that I belonged in it.”
– Emily Brontë

“There are four important questions in life. What is sacred? What is the soul made of? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is love.”
– From the film Don Juan DeMarco

“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fear of losing it.”
– Stendhal

“There is no peace in love, for whatever we attain becomes just another starting point for desiring more.”
– Marcel Proust

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin

“He knew there were more beautiful, nobler, purer faces—but precisely this one face held sway over him. This face was his entire world, and he himself had endowed it with that power.”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“Love knows only the present tense.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Whoever throws themselves into love might fare better leaping off a cliff.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus

“First, choose someone worthy of love if you’re a novice in the battle of romance; second, strive to win your beloved’s heart; third, be sure the flame never dies.”
– Publius Ovidius Naso

“Whoever loves is never alone, because the beloved is always present. One who loves no longer wants to be the center of their own life; they allow something else to become that center, and they perceive this as gain and happiness. They give up themselves, becoming like an open hand ready to receive. Those who love have the courage to need something.”
– Walter Trobisch

“There is nothing more beautiful or more noble than a husband and wife who run their household with shared understanding, causing grief to ill-wishers, joy to well-wishers, and bringing great honor upon themselves.”
– Homer

“Terrible love, to what lengths you drive our human soul!”
– Virgil

“Love can grant in a single moment what long, arduous effort rarely achieves.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is difficult to define love: in the soul it is a thirst for power, in the intellect it is sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden, delicate longing for the possession of that which we love in its mystery.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

“Love must arrive suddenly, amid lightning and thunder—like a storm bursting upon one’s life, overturning everything, carrying off one’s will like a leaf in a whirlwind.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Robert Frost

“It is not within our power to love someone forever, any more than it is to refrain from loving them.”
– Jean de La Bruyère

“Time strengthens friendship and weakens love.”
– Jean de La Bruyère

“In matters of love, sir, reason scarcely matters at all.”
– Jean Racine

“I feel we are kindred spirits; I understand all his gestures, and though a yawning gap in birth and fortune lies between us, there is something in my mind and heart, in my blood and nerves, that makes me his spiritual equal. A day or two ago I spoke quite differently? I said I had nothing to do with him beyond receiving my wages? I forbade myself from seeing him as anything more than my employer? But that is blasphemy! A crime against nature! Every good, true, strong, and pure feeling in me revolves around him. I know I must conceal my emotions; I must extinguish the spark of hope; I must never forget how little I could mean to him. When I say we are soulmates, I don’t mean I can impose my will on others or that I exude his same compelling power. I simply mean our tastes and inclinations align in many ways. I keep repeating that a whole world stands between us, yet I will love him as long as I live.”
– Charlotte Brontë