| Love
Quotations from Translatum http://www.translatum.gr/quotes/love-quotations.htm When we are
together I stay awake all night There's such a thing as trying
too hard Whom shall
I call on? Who will share with me
For love …
has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the
other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every
member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly
are they joined together that you cannot separate them. Love is made
by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but
in an oblivious crowd. There is love
of course. And then there's life, its enemy. A pity beyond
all telling Will you still
love me when I'm sixty-four? In dreams and
in love there are no impossibilities. For aught that
I could ever read, And yet, to
say the truth, reason and love A man falls
in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Of all the
pain, the greatest pain, We are all
born for love. It is the principle of existence, God, from
a beautiful necessity, is Love. In the spring
a young man's fancy lightly turns Love and a
red nose can't be hid. They sin who
tell us Love can die: Say thou dost
love me, love me-toll When we understand
that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge
into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is
the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature
in order to experience his own being. To love someone
is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess
him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around
the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. There is no
fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. There is no
difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
Love seeketh
only self to please, The desire
for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even
love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. Love is the
extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and
once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes
you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another
you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. Art is not
necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place
to live in is to love-to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. They do not
love that do not show their love. What the world
needs now, I feel it
when I when I sorrow most: Then, must
you speak Love sought
is good, All is fair
in love and war. Love reckons
hours for months, and days for years; Romantic love,
in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation.
For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation….
The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom
she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice,
the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill
and redeem the masculinity of her lover. Well, love
is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a
rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself,
you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Love is often
nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of
what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. At any rate,
let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of
divine drunkenness that we can all try. Love gives
naught but itself and takes naught but When love beckons
to you, follow him, If love is
the answer, could you please rephrase the question ? If the universe
has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making
a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it. If you have
it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have
it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. It is not how
much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much
we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love built
on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. Love doesn't
make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Love is also
like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it
out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter. Madame, it
is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It
is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning
goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured
and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not
exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked
by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things
it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many
times. He who wants
to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. True love is
like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. Love is an
obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love is an
ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. Love is being
stupid together. There is no
difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love
will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that
enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless
the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient
realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough,
you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... Love is the
delusion that one woman differs from another. Do you want
me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked
up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it…. It really is
worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble
is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Love (understood
as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon
that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin
again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean
of another's soul. A man has only
one escape from his old self: to see a different self-in the mirror of
some woman's eyes. Love is the
cheapest of religions. People who
are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because
of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should
be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the
comma bacillus. Love: Two minds
without a single thought. Many people
when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world,
where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and
praised when they are not praiseworthy. I regard as
a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but
also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial.
I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else
live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. Love is a smoke
made with the fume of sighs, Men have died
from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. The fickleness
of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the
women who love me. When desire,
having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right,
is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and
when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with
violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname
from this very violent motion, and is called love. For it is the
suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate
upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death,
which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the
depth of love there is a depth of eternal despair, out of which springs
hope and consolation. Love is life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything
is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it
alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall
return to the general and eternal source. I've only been
in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. If somebody
says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed
at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which
the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too." Fantasy love
is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The
most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. When one is
in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends
by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. I do not think
that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it
is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand
to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair;
with golden tresses or raven locks;-and when we meet with a complete example
of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck. Mine ear is
much enamoured of thy note; One advantage
of marriage One good thing
about internet dating: you're guaranteed to click with whomever you meet.
May you live
as long as you wish and love as long as you live. To the world
you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Today I begin
to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we
each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like
a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I
imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. We've got this
gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept
it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by
itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after
it and nurture it. You never lose
by loving. You always lose by holding back. When the power
of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. I am nothing
special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and
I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my
name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart
and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. Once I dropped
a tear in the ocean. When I find it is when I'll stop loving you. Life is to
be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest
happiness of existence. Being deeply
loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage. Pure love and
suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters,
the former makes its exit. A man is not
where he lives, but where he loves. To love is
to receive a glimpse of heaven. Absence diminishes
small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle
and fans the bonfire. Absence is
to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles
the great. "We are
told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain
intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck
. . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. Love takes
off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
within. A relationship
is like a rose, Come live with
me, and be my love, ... and the
only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind
when you're gone. The magic of
the first love is the ignorance that it can never end. Love is life.
And if you miss love, you miss life. Love has its
own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You
cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace
it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. Love enables
you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner's
hand, knowing they will be handled with care. To love at
all is to be vulnerable. Love is not
something you feel. It's something you do. The moment
you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the
depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you
the world is transformed. ...so in love
the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch
it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed. No love, no
friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark
on it forever. There is no
distance too great between friends, for love gives wings to the heart. Where there
is love there is life. Love doesn't
make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile. All our young
lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We
choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak
and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone
searching for us. You never lose
by loving. You always lose by holding back. Life without
love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. Love is the
flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be
plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. Time is too
slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those
who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time
is eternity. When we come
to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only
thing that's going to matter is "What was the quality of our love?" Love expects
no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love
thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. Love is but
another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected
with humanity. All I really
need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! It's not that
chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate.
Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man. Our hours in
love have wings; in absence, crutches. He who is in
love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many
rivals. Of all forms
of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. What a man
takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. Every city
has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is
feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this,
hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in
his twenties in love with an older woman. Certain is
it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father
to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition;
but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. A heart in
love with beauty never grows old. For one human
being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work
is but preparation The truth is
that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love
is not important -what is important is that one is capable of love. It
is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Where we love
is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Love is composed
of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Let no one
who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow She fights
and vanquishes in me, and i live and breathe in her, and i have life and
being. The supreme
happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved Love is something
eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. It is love
alone that gives worth to all things. To love is
to receive a glimpse of heaven. Love, you are
eternal like springtime. Beauty in not
in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Harmony is
pure love, for love is a concerto. Without love,
the world itself would not survive. Pains of love
be sweeter far Each moment
of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. We are shaped
and fashioned by what we love Love looks
not with the eyes, but with the mind; La coeur a
ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. You don't love
a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love
her Love will find
a way through paths where wolves fear to prey Love doesn't
just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all
the time, made new. In the arithmetic
of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. The reduction
of the universe to a single being,the expansion of a single being even
to God, this is love. Who travels
for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. A part of you
has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and
never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart. We are each
of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. The soul that
can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. A man is not
where he lives, but where he loves. There is only
one happiness in life, to love and be loved. Take away love,
and our earth is a tomb At the touch
of love, everyone becomes a poet. Some people
never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing
to be told. Like the measles,
love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. If you cannot
inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of
herself; all that runs over will be yours. There is no
remedy for love but to love more. A coward is
incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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