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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Marriage
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949)
Though you’re a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn’t the world, and Rome can’t be Rome.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Roman Elegies (1789), Elegy 1
My peace is gone,
My heart is sore:
I never shall find it,
Ah, nevermore!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVIn context
- Emotion
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890In his letter to Theo, from Nuenen, c. 9 March 1884
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh: The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17.
- Art
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to his brother Theo, Cuesmes (July 1880)
- God
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), “Marriage and Love”
- Freedom
When I’m married I want to be single, and when I’m single I want to be married.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
- Marriage
Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
Robert Graves1895–1985“Symptoms of Love,” lines 1-3, from More Poems (1961)
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
DGDavid Grayson1870–1946
Your greatest power in seduction is your ability to turn away, to make others come after you, delaying their satisfaction.
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)
- Power
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Wash from the dross of life thy hands as the Path’s men of old
And, winning love’s alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold.
Hafez1326–1389A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911), p. 65 (Bicknell)