Bertrand Russell Quotes About Love

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this, and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression and cruelty.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.