“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.”
– Princess Diana
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.”
– Billie Holiday
“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.”
– Angelina Jolie
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”
– Anthony Hopkins
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
– Paul Sweeney
“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.”
– Tori Amos
“The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
– Henry Miller
“I love to hit people. I love to.”
– Mike Tyson
“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
– Erich Fromm
“I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.”
– Angelina Jolie
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
– Aldo Leopold
“I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.”
– Tori Amos
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
– Erich Fromm
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
– Barbara de Angelis
“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
– Aldous Huxley
“You don’t walk away if you love someone. You help the person.”
– Hillary Clinton
“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.”
– Erich Fromm
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
– Julius Caesar
“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
– Carl Jung
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
– Jeremy Taylor
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”
– Marie de France
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
– Robert Anton Wilson