Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

Love is, and I hope it never isn't.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

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}

I fell in love with melancholy

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I love you.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life