LOVE
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich NietzscheThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
Victor HugoLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeI believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
Real Live PreacherLove is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda BarryWe don't always get to choose what we love.
Scott WesterfeldTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand RussellLove is a friendship set to music.
Joseph CampbellWhen you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. RowlingAge cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
William ShakespeareFriendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb ColtonWe can only learn to love by loving.
Iris MurdochSonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
Have put on black, and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even
Doth half that glory to the sober west
As those two mourning eyes become thy face.
O, let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
And all they foul that thy complexion lack.
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
National LampoonTo love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen SundeThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. Somerset MaughamAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne MoreauThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauLove is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette DavisBefore I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita RudnerI cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane AustenNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan WattsPerhaps 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 ChekhovWhat else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich NietzscheLove is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening
