Alexandre Dumas: Quotes about love

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”