“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
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.
“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”
“We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.”
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“Love does not dominate it cultivates.”
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”