“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
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.
“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”
“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
“For love is immortality.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”
“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”