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But being in love doesn’t mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- God
- Nature
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- Children
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Seven, Chapter 24In context
Love of one’s neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), PrefaceIn context
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Prologue, spoken by ChorusIn context
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Beauty
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Beauty
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by RomeoIn context
At lovers’ perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
- Truth & Lies
It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say “It lightens.”
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context