Quotes About Love

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Daca inima omeneasca afla clipe de ragaz in timp ce urca pe culmile afectiunii, rareori se opreste pe povarnisul abrupt al sentimentelor dusmanoase

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.

Experiencing that intense emotion is what helps us, ultimately, accept that our mothers are gone.

I think feeling it, letting myself risk love and letting myself be loved, is one of the biggest challenges left for me.

how much of my life my mother's death would affect. And with the certainty of thirty-three years, I would tell her: everything. It affects everything. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here—I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

We've been lucky," he said, rising from his chair with his palm pressed against his forehead as he heard the ambulance attendants on the front path outside. "We had her four months longer than she was expected to live." Lucky? I thought, as I stood behind an emergency room curtain an hour later, holding my mother's hand and trying to press ice chips between her cracked and bloodstained lips. Could someone identify the lucky people here?

It's hard to understand how we can harbor negative feelings toward someone we love when the two appear to sit at such competing ends of the spectrum. But negative emotion does, which is why even daughters of abusive mothers need to mourn the loss.