Quotes on “love”

When love is not madness it is not love.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.