Quotes on “love”

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.