Quotes Of Love - Part I

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

- Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

- Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6