“A
life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but
a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring
of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love
is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
H.L. Mencken
“The
hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain.
To show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they
do.”
Nan Fairbrother
"To
love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
David Viscott, M.D.
"To
fear love is to fear life."
Bertrand Russell
"Life
has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in
looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"We
do not judge the people we love."
Jean Paul Sartre
"To
love another person is to see the face of God."
Les Miserables
"Tell
me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
Houssaye
"The
greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved
for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo
"Love
is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
Erich Fromm
"When
you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love
someone, you love them with their faults."
Elizabeth Cameron
"The
way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
G. K. Chesterton
"Woe
to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -
and to put its trust in life."
Joseph Conrad
"Be
of love (a little) more careful than of anything."
E. E. Cummings
“Take
away love, and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"If
a thing loves, it is infinite."
William Blake