Quotes about love

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

"I should never have listened to her," he confided to me one day, "One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance."

The forests through which we have passed with our child, the trees under which we have walked, the convents in which we have hidden, the games, the free laughter of childhood, all is in shadow. I imagined that all that belonged to me. There was my folly. Those Thenardiers were wicked. We must forgive them. Cosette, the time has come to tell of your mother. Her name was Fantine. Remember that name: Fantine. Fall on your knees whenever you pronounce it. She suffered much. And loved you much. Her measure of unhappiness was as full as yours of happiness. Such are the distributions of God. He is on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of his great stars. So I am going away, my children. Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

The endeavor is vain, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the hearts of men by this double light, has seen nothing, and know nothing of the truth.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.

Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.

Translation: You can´t live without loving.