"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."

"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."

"He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul."

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

"Love those you hate you."

"It's hard to love a woman and do anything."

"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."

"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."