Quotes and Sayings About Love
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
-- Amy Tan -
Whatever it is that makes you the person you are - that's what I love. All of it.
-- Amy Vincent -
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
-- Anacreon -
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
-- Anacreon -
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin -
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-- Anais Nin -
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
-- Anais Nin -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
-- Anais Nin -
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
-- Anais Nin -
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
-- Anais Nin -
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
-- Anais Nin -
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
-- Anais Nin -
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
-- Anais Nin -
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin -
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
-- Anais Nin -
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
-- Anais Nin -
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
-- Anais Nin -
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
-- Anais Nin -
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
-- Anais Nin -
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
-- Anais Nin -
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-- Anais Nin -
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.
-- Anais Nin -
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
-- Anais Nin -
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-- Anais Nin -
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
-- Anatole France -
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- Anatole France -
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France
