More love quotations
Compiled by Victor P. Gendrano
"Love conquers everything [Amor vincit omnia]: let us, too, yield to love."
- Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet.
"Love sickness needs a love cure."
- Chinese proverb.
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet.
"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."
- Honore De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
"Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other."
- Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist.
"Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist, poet, philosopher.
"Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar.
"True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author.
"Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain."
- Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist.
"They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness."
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist.
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love."
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Syrian-born American poet, novelist.