Quotes About Love

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

Quisiéramos no acariciar el cuerpo que amamos, sino ser la caricia.

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Sowohl die heidnische wie auch die romantische Liebe ist unschuldig; lasterhaft ist nur die satte und hygienische Sexulaität zwischen Gleichen.

Clergymen and journalists have smeared the term "love" with so much sentimentality that even its echo stinks.

In its desire to gain the upper hand over democratic humanitarianism, modern Catholicism summarizes the two great commandments of the Gospel thus: You shall love your neighbor above all things.

Love is a transformation of the Erotic field, which occurs when there is an imbalance between its polarity... between the equal, we only copulate.

Love is a transformation of the Erotic field, which occurs when there is an imbalance between its polarity... between equals, we only copulate.

Let us repudiate the abominable suggestion that we should renounce friendship and love in order to banish misfortune. On the contrary, let us mingle our souls just as we weave our bodies together. May the beloved be the land of our shattered roots.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. RUMI, from GRANITE AND WINEGLASS

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.

Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.