Quotes About Love

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île.

Le lien a tenu. Rien ne pouvait le rompre. Mon deuil s'est poursuivi avec l'infinie lenteur du souvenir qui s'enfonce dans la mémoire. Mais j'ai recommencé à tourner les yeux vers l'avenir. J'ai accordé plus d'attention, et plus d'amour aux vivants.

À force de regarder les étoiles, tu t'es mise à aimer l'univers.

Moi, j'aime les gens. Au fond, je les aime trop pour les juger.

Not having children derives not from dislike, but from love too great to bring them into this world, too limited, too vain, too cruel.

Et le croisement de ces mains de vieillards fortes et usées était comme le signe d'un ancien pacte renouvelé trop tard, à présent sans autre objet qu'un rêve à l'agonie. Un pacte d'amour gratuit cerné par le néant.

La tendresse maternelle et l'érotisme des amants ne sont que des aspects particuliers de l'ardent besoin de contact physique qui fait le fond de la chair et du cÅ"ur.

Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.

De toute façon, les hommes sont trop plates!' 'Tu les aimes, pourtant.' 'J'en ai besoin! C'est pas pareil!

Se c'è un termine che mi definisce veramente è «troppo». Mi innamoro troppo. Mi appassiono troppo. Mi stanco troppo. Mi arrabbio troppo.

Ma l'amore è questo: prendersi cura l'uno dell'altro, anche se in maniera sgrammaticata e maldestra, ognuno a partire dall'intensità imperfetta della propria storia fino alla perfezione neutra della complementarietà.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I know well that, at this hour, I could as easily forget your name as the food by which I live by; nay, it were easier to forget the food, which only nourishes by body miserably, than your name, which nourishes both body and soul, filling the one and the other with such sweetness that neither weariness nor fear of death is felt by me while memory preserves you to my mind. Think, if the eyes could also enjoy their portion, in what condition I should find myself.

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.