Quotes


The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
• Honore de Balzac

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
• Bertrand Russell

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
• Boethius

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
• Julie Andrews

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
• Barbara Pym

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
• Khalil Gibran

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• Aristotle

Love is the poetry of the senses.
• Honore de Balzac

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
• John Donne

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
• Victor Hugo


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