I dote on his very absence.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I never fall in love.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.