# Quotes about love - Quotes: 49 - Authors: 19 - Narrower topics: [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love ## Quotes > Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/loving-someone-is-a-loss.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/i-want-you.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md) > Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love... [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/underneath-it-all.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md) > Love at the lips was touch > > As sweet as I could bear; > > And once that seemed too much; > > I lived on air [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md) · [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/love-at-the.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md) > I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) > The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came. And though you and I may never know why this lane is called Shelley's, to us both it will always be the greenest lane in Sussex, because it leads to the special secret I spoke of. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > 'In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.' And he bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Every man's life (and … every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal … love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > The moment we care for anything deeply, the world—that is, all the other miscellaneous interests—becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from the world;" but lovers talk of it just as much when they talk of the "world well lost." Astronomically speaking, I understand that England is situated on the world; similarly, I suppose that the Church was a part of the world, and even the lovers inhabitants of that orb. But they all felt a certain truth—the truth that the moment you love anything the world becomes your foe. Thus Mr. Kipling does certainly know the world; he is a man of the world, with all the narrowness that belongs to those imprisoned in that planet. He knows England as an intelligent English gentleman knows Venice. He has been to England a great many times; he has stopped there for long visits. But he does not belong to it, or to any place; and the proof of it is this, that he thinks of England as a place. The moment we are rooted in a place, the place vanishes. We live like a tree with the whole strength of the universe. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/the-moment-we-care.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/i-was-a-flower.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md) > the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/the-sun-shines.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > — But it's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. > > — What? says Alf. > > — Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/but-its-no-use.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md) > Love loves to love love. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) · p. 327 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/love-loves-to-love.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Second Foundation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation/remarkable-what-a-fragile.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > “Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist — for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.” [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Foundation and Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/were-i-to-use.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > “At least try to see my motives. Granted that I was foolish—criminally foolish—can’t you understand? Can’t you try not to hate me?” > > She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.” [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [The Stars, Like Dust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust.md) · p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/at-least-try.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > It was very pleasant to be loved, but it had its disadvantages if one stopped to look beyond the immediate moment. For a fleeting instant Yradne wondered if she had been fair to Jon, to Brant—even to herself. One day the decision would have to be made; it could not be postponed forever. Yet she could not for the life of her decide which of the boys she liked the better; and she did not know if she loved either. > > No one had ever told her, and she had not yet discovered, that when one has to ask “Am I really in love?” the answer is always “No”. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 282 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/it-was-very.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/it-was-good.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md) > Above all, there was the memory - and mystery - of Helena... It had begun as a casual affair, in the early days of his astrotraining, but had become more and more serious as the years went by. Just before he had left for Jupiter, they had planned to make it permanent when he returned. And if he did not, Helena wished to have his child. He still recalled the blend of solemnity and hilarity with which they had made the necessary arrangements... [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [3001 The Final Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey/above-all-there.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/the-person-one.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions.md) > Whatever godlike powers and principalities lurked beyond the stars, Poole reminded himself, for ordinary humans only two things were important - Love and Death. p. 87 [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [3001 The Final Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey/whatever-godlike-powers.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md) > There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The City And The Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars.md) · p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars/there-still-remained.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md) > To the loves of my life: Laura, Barbara, and Jenna [George W. Bush](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush.md) · [Decision Points](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush/decision-points.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush/decision-points/to-the-loves.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md) > For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men. [Ivo Andric](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric.md) · [The Bridge on the Drina](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina/for-a-man.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy. Germinal Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md) > During the 60's, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60's I never thought in terms of "love" again. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md) > Love is the answer and you know that for sure. > > Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow. > > ...Faith in the future, out of the now... Mind Games Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love is to live by it. > > Love! A dark and starry transfiguration is mingled with that torment. There is ecstacy in the agony. [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/you-who-suffer.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md) > Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. [H.L. Mencken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken.md) · [A Mencken Chrestomathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/love-is-the.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions.md) > "Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated." [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/then-we-understand.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/no-human-being.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never wrong enough to find the word befitting it. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/at-that-moment.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/in-oran-as-elsewhere.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour, and this is reassuring, since the great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one... [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/yes-everyone-sleeps.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > The rest of the story, to Grand's thinking, was very simple. The common lot of married couples. You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget to love. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/the-rest-of-the.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md) > The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/the-opposite-of-an-idealist.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/he-discovered-the.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions.md) > You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/you-cant-reason.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Only charity admitteth no excess. For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum: but by aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall transgress. [Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Advancement of Learning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning/only-charity-admitteth.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/if-you-will.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love." [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/it-was-remembered.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present beyond his misery: and the sound of her voice, the light of her face, the touch of her hand, had a strong beneficial influence with him almost always. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/only-his-daughter.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md) > He had loved Lucie Manette from the hour of his danger. He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/he-had-loved.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you! [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/o-miss-manette.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) > Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. [Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr.md) · [Strength to Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love.md) · p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love/hatred-paralyzes-life.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md)