“Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

“Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”

“Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off, it don’t fade. It’ll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I’ma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love.”

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!

First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something—with something that is a little like love.

Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

How can I hold you close enough?

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves." "It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”

“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. “

“It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”

“Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.