Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

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

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

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.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to love him.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.