Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Love
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
...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"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
-Ernest Hemingway
"Men Without Women"
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
