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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. III: “Divine Goodness”
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Introduction
- Friendship
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I…fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Marriage
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part II, section 1.
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Table-Talk (1857)
Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Pt. III, The Lover’s Errand.
- Talking
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Lov’d I not Honour more.
Richard Lovelace1617–1658To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649)In context
- Honor
When love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire,
And fetterd to her eye,
The birds, that wanton in the aire,
Know no such liberty.
Richard Lovelace1617–1658To Althea, from Prison (1649)In context
- Freedom
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Madonnaborn 1958
- Marriage
The whole purpose of a husband and wife is that when hard times knock at the door you should be able to embrace each other.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013
- Marriage
Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
- Life & Death
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
- Life & Death
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593
- Money
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Hero and Leander (published 1598), First Sestiad
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.