“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.”
Love is the most written-about subject in human history, and it still manages to surprise us. These quotes cover romantic love, family love, self-love, unrequited love, and the kind of love that quietly sustains you through ordinary days.
“When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.”
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.”
“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.”
“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.”
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.”
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”