Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

I think that a woman should be in love. I think that love makes the sex greater. Or even if you just really, really like that person.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

At the heart of all things is love.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.