Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
Quoted by Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus in The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales, ch. 1, Pg. 3 (1880)
Wer verliebt ist, ist demütig. Wer liebt, hat sozusagen ein Stück seines Narzißmus eingebüßt.
"Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6" (1924), p. 183
1920s
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
Quoted by Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus in The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales, ch. 1, Pg. 3 (1880)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Whoever loves knowing why they love, doesn’t love.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Quien ama sabiendo por qué ama, no ama.
Voces (1943)
“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 loved are those that have found God.”
Nanak (1469–1539) Founder of Sikhism
Guru Nanak quotes
“Whoever loves himself cannot love God.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint
§ 12
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
opening prayer, p. 3
1840s, Works of Love (1847)