Rufus Wainwright Quotes

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

It's a universal desire to love and to be loved and, despite trying circumstances, to still fight for the good.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Love is sacrifice.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.