Love Is Quotes - Page 22

• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Wings, Riches

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

  Sappho

  Love, Fables, Fantasy

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• Love is the force that leaves you colorless

  Ovid

  Force, Colorless

  Ovid (2005). “Metamorphoses: A New Translation”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

  Plutarch

  And Love, Love And Trust, Evidence

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• Failure to love is almost like murder.

  Boris Pasternak

  Murder

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• Real love isn't ever ambivalent.

  Tony Kushner

  Real, Angels In America, Ambivalent

  "Angels in America". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Mean, Important

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• Love is the true condition of human life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Human Life, Humans, Conditions

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• Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

  Torquato Tasso

  Love, Romantic, Heart

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• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Agony

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Petrarch

  Grace, Humanity, Prophetic

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Broken, Self Love

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• To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humanity, Forgiving, One Love

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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• I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Being Hated, Hated

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• Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

  Russell Conwell

  Earth, Lovers, Plenty

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Maturity, Lightning, Accepting

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• You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

  Chet Baker

  Love You, Knows, Loses

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• If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

  Mark Helprin

  Music, Thinking, Ifs

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• True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

  Lars von Trier

  Art, Pain, Real

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• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

  Alain Badiou

  Two, Narcissist, Contracts

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

  Alain Badiou

  Two, People, Engagement

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Two, Shining, Grace

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Yesterday, World, His Love

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.79

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Heaven, Solitude, Sublime

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophical, Rivals, Losing

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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