It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
Quotations
Love
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-Oscar Wilde
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
-John Milton "John Milton"
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
