We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.
Life is nothing but an opportunity for love to blossom. If you are alive, the opportunity is there - even to the last breath. You may have missed your whole life: just the last breath, the last moment on the earth, if you can be love, you have not missed anything - because a single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.
Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
