“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
Quotes about love
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“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
“I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”
“Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.”
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.”
“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”