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I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life (1930), Ch. 1, on his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill
- Family
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25
- Wisdom
You must get your living by loving.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), pp. 486–7
- Work
Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque”, Ch. 2.
- Marriage
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 1
- God
With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.
William James1842–1910The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 1: The Scope of Psychology (1918 edition)
You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (28 April 1776)
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases.
Robertson Davies1913–1995The Pleasures of Love (1961).
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Glimpses of Bengal (1921)
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
George R. R. Martinborn 1948“Meathouse Man” (1976)
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Physiology of Marriage (1829)
- Marriage
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years