Some quotations on Love.....

selected quotations...


To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts


Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,
however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliffe

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell


The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung


There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.


One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
Elizabeth Aston

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong

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

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
Henry Bromel

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch