“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
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“Loves those who cry with their hearts, those who fight with honor and those who love for love.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Ama chi piange con il cuore, chi lotta con onore e chi ama per amore.
Source: prevale.net
“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)
The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.