Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
Who, being loved, is poor?
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
