Let none think to fly the danger, for soon or late Love is his own avenger.
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.[translation by Richard Howard]It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.[translation by Katherine Woods][C’est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.]
It matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
It is well to be off with the old love, before being on with the new.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
It is true we love life; not because we are used to life, but because we are used to loving.
It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting.
It is hard believing to think that a love or a sorrow is a bond purchased without design and which matures willynilly and is recalled without warning to be replaced by whatever issue the gods happen to be floating at the time.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
