When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
Quotations
Love
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
-Khalil Gibran
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give, that takes courage because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
-Ayn Rand
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
-Jesus Christ
You can experience love, but you cannot describe it or express it totally.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour… If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.
-William Shakespeare "William Shakespeare"
If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
-Markus Zusak
"Getting the Girl"
