“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.”
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.
“Love is the river of life in the world.”
“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.”
“Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.”
“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
“Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!”
“It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
“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.”
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”