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 love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
-Theodor W. Adorno
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Williams
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
There is no love that is not an echo.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde "Oscar Wilde"
