People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!

First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something—with something that is a little like love.

Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

How can I hold you close enough?

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves." "It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”

“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. “

“It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”

“Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

“Love Your Job but don’t love your company, because you may not know when your company stops loving you.”

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.”