Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Valentine's Day Quotes
This page has no collection of its own behind it. It is built from the pages on love, romance and beauty, so it is very large and not selective. Use it as a place to start, and check what you pick.
The check matters more for love than for most topics, because so many of the famous lines are not what they seem. “Choose a job you love” is not Confucius, and “God made beer because he loves us” is probably a garbled Franklin on wine. See the Love page for both. If you are going to put a quote in a card, look at the label next to it first.
The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.
Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.
Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.
The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
"To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed."
A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life
Love for Love
And Blood for Blood—the simple golden rule
Taught by the elder gods.
Fucking is possible everywhere, but love is only possible remotely.
I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.