“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
— Oscar Wilde
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.”
— Roland Barthes
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
— Stendhal
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
— Elie Wiesel
“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”
— Erich Fromm
“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.”
— Anita Brookner
“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
— Marcel Proust
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
— Karl Menninger
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.”
— U Thant
“Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.”
— Erich Fromm
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
— Stendhal
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.”
— Agatha Christie
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
— Orson Welles