Walter Scott Quotes

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

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.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

Your Heavenly Father loves you-each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God's love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.