"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund | Love | 12 bookmarks

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John | Dreams | 5 bookmarks

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Reason | 2 bookmarks

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor | Self-love | 24 bookmarks

"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source | Men and Women | 15 bookmarks

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Key, Ellen | Marriage | 6 bookmarks

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."

Lokes, Harold | Love | 2 bookmarks

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. | Love | 5 bookmarks

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Love | 8 bookmarks

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz | Love | 6 bookmarks