Voltaire Quotes

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

People kill for love. They die for love.

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

We love even when our love is not requited.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Woe be unto man, who ought to follow, but does not follow, these dumb quadrupeds [Elk] that are irrational and speechless, but so faithful toward one another that one lays down his life for the sake of his mate or his young one.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I need you more than he did. I don't expect you to love me as you did him.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.