Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso on love
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard on love
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley on love
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Pierre Beaumarchais on love
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. Chuck Palahniuk on love
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke on love
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster on love
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel on love
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston on love
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera on love
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish. Hillary Clinton on love
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar on love
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin on marriage
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates on marriage
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche on marriage
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde on marriage
Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without. James C. Dobson on marriage
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne on marriage
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther on marriage
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill on marriage