Conor Oberst Quotes

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

You've got to give away what you love.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.

I never sacrificed myself. I did what I did out of love.

My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

If you love something, give it away...

Love never claims, it ever gives.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.