Love Quotes

“Can the sea be empty of salt, Or love of sorrow?”

“"It is you that have killed me," I wrote. "Killed me again and again, a hundred times. I can never look a single soul in the face again. And I hate you, hate you, hate you—" So I wrote. But even as I did so, I knew it was not that word, but another, that I meant. Our hate we can escape, but the other thing, never.”

“Passionate love can become passionate hatred only when a germ of love survives.”

“I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.”

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.”

“Love can only end in indifference. If it ends in hate, it hasn't ended.”

“What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.”

“A goddess not inglorious in the skies Is Venus... O sovereign, sea-born Venus... Never with wild ungovern'd sway Rush on my heart, and force it to obey: For not the light'ning's fire, Nor stars swift-darting through the sky, Equal the shafts sent by this son of Jove, When his hand gives them force to fly, Kindling the flames of love.”

“If you would be loved, love and be loveable.”

“Love is mostly valor, with little discretion.”

“Love is a decision you might wisely reconsider, if it were a decision, and you could reconsider it, and you were likely to be any wiser.”

“If her unhappiness does not destroy my happiness, and if her happiness does not make me happy, I do not love her.”