Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. – Anna Louise Strong

I love you more than my own skin. – Frida Kahlo

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. – H. L. Mencken

Love can do much, but duty more. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. – Victor Hugo

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. – William Barclay

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. – Thomas Moore

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. – Katharine Hepburn

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. – H. L. Mencken

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. – Victor Hugo

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? – Mike Tyson

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. – Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. – Esai Morales

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. – Napoleon Bonaparte