Quotes About Love

Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.

I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Don't strive for love, be it.

Ese grado de sensibilidad, uno tiene que y uno puede desarrollarlo. La capacidad de amar es infinita, es infinita, infinita. Desarrollémosla.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Hoerenpraat natuurlijk, maar toch lief.

Si tout amour prendroye racine J'en planteroye dans mon Jardin ("Indien elke liefde wortel schieten zou, dan zou ik ze planten in mijn tuin")

women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands.

Mietin että naiset olisivat ihania jos voisi langeta niiden syliin lankeamatta samalla niiden käsiin.

C'è sempre un ingenuo... pronto a sacrificarsi per una donna...

Penso che le donne sarebbero meravigliose se tutto potesse cadere nello loro braccia, senza cadere nelle loro mani

Everyone who made love the night before Was walking around with flashing red lights On top of their heads—a white-haired old gentleman, A red-faced schoolboy, a pregnant woman Who smiled at me from across the street And gave a little secret shrug, As if the flashing red light on her head Was a small price to pay for what she knew.

As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Goodbye Kid. Hurry back. – Humphrey Bogart, last words to Lauren Bacall as she briefly left his bedside before his death.

I have at last got busy about Mummy's grave. . . . . The inscription I should like is: EDITH MARY TOLKIEN 1889-1971 Lúthien :brief and jejune, except for Lúthien , which says for me more than a multitude of words: for she was (and knew she was) my Lúthien. … I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion . Letter 340 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

This love for the memory of the countryside of his youth was later to become a central part of his writing, and it was intimately bound up with his love for the memory of his mother.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.