Ellen Key Quotes

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.

I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.

Every one of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

This love is silent.

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

Free love is too expensive.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

The art of love is who you share it with.

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.