Love is based on imagination.
~ Olivier Martinez
'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~ Charles Péguy
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~ Samuel Johnson
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~ E. W. Howe
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
~ Brittany Snow
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.
~ Sarah Maclean
Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.
~ Jeff Giles
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
~ John Dos Passos
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
~ Alain De Botton
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
~ Mason Cooley
Romantic love is an addiction.
~ Helen Fisher
Romantic love is painful.
~ Will.i.am
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
~ James Gray
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
~ Kate Millett
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
~ Anita Brookner
No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.
~ Stephenie Meyer
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.
~ Josh Turner
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
~ Washington Irving
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
~ Maya Angelou
For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.
~ Casey Kasem
Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
~ Wale
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Walter Scott
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?
~ Rupi Kaur
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
~ Athol Fugard
I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
~ Alan Bates
'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.
~ Delilah
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
~ Michael O'brien