Love Quotes

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I love those who do not know how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it-all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary-but love it.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Love, too, has to be learned.