LOVE

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. O.Wilde

Anyone who has never owned a dog can’t know what loving and being loved mean.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Vladimir Nabokov

I'd rather be respected than loved.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Love is a serious mental disease. Platon 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is too young to know what conscience is. (Shakespeare)


Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
 
Love me or hate me..Either way you're thinking of me / I'm on your mind!

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. ... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. ~William Shakespeare 


Love makes us crazy, marriage cuckolds and patriotism cruel imbéciles.

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t. (a glass cleaner).

Love your enemies enough so that you won't think of them as your enemies anymore.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

The most beautiful words are not “I love you”, but “it’s benign”.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Chesterton

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. 

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles


Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.



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love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like Caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.”
Ambrose Bierce

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. Shakespeare

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship -- never.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about. 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. S. Teresa

If you love something let it go, only if he comes back is yours.

Love and a cough cannot be hid(den)

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Love is sweet torment.

Love is not blind, it is far-sighted: the proof lies in the fact that it begins to see defects as they gradually slip away.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love looks through a telescope; (envy, through a microscope).

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

They do not love that do not show their love.

To fear love is to fear life.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say / know how to say the 'I'. The love of a parasite is worth nothing. The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand

We accept the love we think we deserve.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

When I say I love you I actually do. I don't say it just to make conversation.

When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House)


SHAKESPEARE QUOTES ON LOVE

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

They do not love that do not show their love.