One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
-Edwin Arnold
Quotations
Love
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
"How to Make an American Quilt"
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"
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
-Virgil "Virgil"
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
-Theodor W. Adorno
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
