Quotes about Love

The sad truth is that we live in a world that encourages selfishness, independence, convenience, isolation, and using people rather than loving them.

In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos- Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; But pleasantest is it to win what we love.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich.