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Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
If I had as many love affairs as you’ve given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998Pop Chronicles: Show 22—Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. (Part 1), 1965.
- Comedy
All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953)
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
- God
- Religion
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
- Envy
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Hic et Ille”
- Friendship
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. 2, Pt.. 5, Ch. 2: The Mother, p. 522
- Marriage
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
- Religion
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Black Cat (1843)
- Animals
Were I still in death and you fighting for life, I would come back to the abyss to aid you⁠—aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell!
Robert E. Howard1906–1936“Queen of the Black Coast” (1934)
- Life & Death
My waking thoughts are all of thee.
Napoleon1769–1821Letter to Joséphine de Beauharnais (February 1796), as translated in Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine 1796-1812 (1901) edited by Henry Foljambe Hall
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost1874–1963Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), Hyla Brook
It is love alone that gives value to all things.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582“V: Loving complaints and petitions; Martha’s complaint,” in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Vol. 1, p. 379.
It is only life and love that give love and life.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 40
- Life & Death
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- God