For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.