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“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”
Sophocles
“Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.”
Sophocles
“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”
Sophocles
“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
Sophocles
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”
Victor Hugo
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Victor Hugo
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”
Victor Hugo
“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
Victor Hugo
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Victor Hugo
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
Victor Hugo
“To love is to act.”
Victor Hugo
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
Victor Hugo
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
Victor Hugo
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Victor Hugo
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
Victor Hugo
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
Victor Hugo
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
Franz Kafka
“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
Franz Kafka
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”
Willie Nelson
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
Ovid
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
Ovid
“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”
Ovid
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
Ovid
