Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Quotations
Love
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
