Love Quote by Jostein Gaarder

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to…

— Empedocles

“Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved…

— Max Scheler

“Oh, maybe it started innocently, with a joke, with coquetry, with amorous play, maybe, indeed, with an atom, but this atom of lie penetrated…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The flames of desire rekindle in the embers of love.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.”

— Victor Hugo

“They loved each other and believed they loved mankind, they fought each other and believed they fought the world.”

— John le Carré

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he…

— Plutarch

“they had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two…

— Garth Nix

“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are…

— Albert Camus

“According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction,…

— Paulo Coelho

“Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments?”

— Richard Matheson

“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work against each…

— Leo Tolstoy