I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

God is the same everywhere.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

And where love ends, hate begins

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

I shall tell him that when he comes back,' she thought and smiled. But just then she recollected that now she had no one to tell anything funny to.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Man is a weak and miserable animal until the light of God burns in his soul.

I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Kitty's face was not there. In place of it, where it used to be, was something dreadful both in it's strained look and in the sound that came from it.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.