Love Is Quotes - Page 21

• But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

  John Irving

  Falling In Love, Fall, Imagination

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.555, Random House

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• That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fun, Struggle, Hopefully

  "Against the grain". Interview with Dana Droppo, www.complex.com. August/September 2014.

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• People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

  Erich Fromm

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Wings, Riches

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

  Sappho

  Love, Fables, Fantasy

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• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

  Plutarch

  And Love, Love And Trust, Evidence

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• Failure to love is almost like murder.

  Boris Pasternak

  Murder

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• Real love isn't ever ambivalent.

  Tony Kushner

  Real, Angels In America, Ambivalent

  "Angels in America". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

  Torquato Tasso

  Love, Romantic, Heart

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• I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Agony

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Broken, Self Love

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• To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humanity, Forgiving, One Love

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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• Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Maturity, Lightning, Accepting

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• You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

  Chet Baker

  Love You, Knows, Loses

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• True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

  Lars von Trier

  Art, Pain, Real

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• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

  Alain Badiou

  Two, Narcissist, Contracts

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Heaven, Solitude, Sublime

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophical, Rivals, Losing

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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• Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

  Holly Black

  Language Of Love, Warning, Firsts

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

  Alain Badiou

  Two, People, Engagement

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Player

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• I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

  Freddie Mercury

  Love, Beautiful, Hurt

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• I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

  Christina Applegate

  Christmas, Light, Snow

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• Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.

  Gerald Burton Winrod

  Christian, Country, Hate

  "Writings".

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• I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Grief, Dark

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