Love Quote by William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

— William Shakespeare

“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so…

— Marcel Proust

“Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn…

— Germaine Greer

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and…

— Marcel Proust

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek meaning in…

— Dean Koontz

“Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven.58 Only self-love is the eternal all-pleasing, which is achieved by meditation on this radiant self which…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

“Here's to loving for that long, too, and loving perfectly, without error or sorrow, held forever on the edge of madness by our desire,…

— Ron Currie Jr

“To understand the love of being loving, radically changes us. People, in and of themselves, cannot give us happiness. Activities, in and of themselves,…

— Donna Goddard