Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you've said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?

Love is something you fall into.