Love
"If somebody says 'I love you'
to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody
reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires?
'I love you too.'" (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." (Swedish proverb)
"Charlotte Bronte gives us a picture
of true beauty in her novel Jane Eyre. The heroine, Jane,
is described as beautiful
in spirit but 'plain' in appearance -- she is nearly the opposite of
the physical ideal of the
day: the plump, pale and pampered society belle. Next to the lovely
and haughty Blanche, her
rival for the love of Mr. Rochester, Jane seems nondescript and
undesirable. But Mr. Rochester
is not deceived by appearances. 'To women who please me only
with their faces' he explains
to Jane, 'I am the very devil when I find out they have neither
souls nor hearts -- when
they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps
imbecility, coarseness, and
ill temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue,
to the soul made of fire,
and the character that bends but does not break -- at once supple
and stable, tractable and
consistent -- I am ever tender and true.'" (Bethany Patchin, at Boundless)
"The best part of love is losing all sense of reality."
"I know that the night is not the same as the day that all things are different , that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started." (Ernest Hemingway in Farewell to Arms)
"To love and to be loved is to feel the sunshine from both sides."
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" (Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved (bantam))
"I pity those who have never been in love, or in hate..." (Athyn Cahanagh, from Blackmantle)
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Wind, Sand, and Stars))
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance."
"Creation of woman from the rib
of Man:
She was not made from
his head to top him;
nor out of his feet
to be trampled upon by him;
but out of his side
to be equal with him,
under his arm to be
protected,
and near his heart
to be loved." (Matthew Henry)
"Flirtation...Attention without intention."
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart"
"Only two kinds of people can talk without inhibitions - strangers or lovers. Everyone in between is just negotiating." (James Grippanda)
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning person holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you in his panic." (Anais Nin)
"You have to walk carefully in the
beginning of love; the running across fields into your
lover's arms can only come later
when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." (Jonathan
Carroll)
"Love who you love, not who loves you." (Naomi Freeman)
"Take a second out to think about
this: in your life you search and search for the right
person for you. Every time you
break up with someone you get one step closer to that person.
You should look at moving on as
getting closer to meeting the one." (Ian Philpot)
"Before my husband, I'd never fallen in love...although I'd stepped in it a few times." (Rita Rudner)
"I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat." (Jay Leno)
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways." (Blaise Pascal)
"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desires to be complete." (Aristophanes)
"Passion: A feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you've never felt before." (Andrew Edgerton)
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." (Albert Einstein)
"Never frown...even when you're sad 'cause you never know when someone's falling in love with your smile."
"You don't MAKE yourself feel love, or passively 'fall' in love, but you let love ENTER you."
"Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are." (Houssaye)
"Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear."
"Love is friendship set on fire." (Jeremy Taylor)
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind." (Theophile Gantier)
"The heart will turn into a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know someone really loves you if he only meets your expectations and not your needs?" (Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not)