We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Quotations
Love
...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"
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Gautama Buddha
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-Oscar Wilde
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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
Love is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
-Rabindranath Tagore "Rabindranath Tagore"
