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
Quotations
Love
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"
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
-William Cowper
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde "Oscar Wilde"
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence.
-Lord Byron
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
-C. George Boeree "C. George Boeree"
