Quotes · Skopia

53 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Nature of love✕clear

Philosophical literature

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

1956

★ 1.0

What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

1888

★ 1.1

Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · 1400

★ 1.5

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

1768

★ 1.9

Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

1910

★ 1.9

Interview · Academic journal

Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not.

1996

★ 1.9

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 1.9

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

Like love we don't know where or why Like love can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep

Law like Love · 1939

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 2.0

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1637

★ 2.0

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Song of Solomon 8:7

1000 BC

★ 2.6

Love is a joint experience between two persons-but the fact it is a joint experience does not mean it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe · 1943

★ 2.7

Play · Comedy (play)

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 3.0

It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.

1956

★ 3.4

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive.

1978

★ 3.4

Film · Coming of age (film) · Coming of age

Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.

St. Elmo's Fire · 1985

★ 3.5

Love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal Whose flame creeps in at every hole.

1591

★ 3.5

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

1665

★ 3.5

Show 20 more of 53 (21–40)