A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
Quotations
Love
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
-Khalil Gibran
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-Anaïs Nin
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
