It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
Quotations
Love
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
-Rob Brezsny "Rob Brezsny"
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
-Ayn Rand
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
-Viktor Frankl
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
-C. George Boeree "C. George Boeree"
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
-Edwin Arnold
