Quotes and aphorisms on love

A collection of quotes and aphorisms on love edited by Carl William Brown. Love emotion has been explored in philosophy, religion, art, science and literature, often as either romantic love, the fraternal love of others, or the love of God, but this phenomenon still remains a great mystery. That's why reading these quotes can give you some more useful ideas to understand the great art of love.

Quotes on love. Teach only love for that is what you are.
Anonymous

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman (1948-, American poet, writer, naturalist)

Miserable is that love that needs words to express itself.
Carl William Brown

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Alfred Adler (1870-1937, Austrian psychiatrist)

What is love? Love is when you care more about someone else than you care about yourself.
George Akers

Every love reveals us our will to live and create, but since ours is a destiny of death, even the noblest sentiment is nothing but a stupid illusion.
Carl William Brown

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott