„If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman.“

„There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.“

—  Albert Camus, könyv Summer

Summer (1954), Return to Tipasa
Kontextus: There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

„I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune.“

—  Margaret Mitchell, Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Forrás: Gone with the Wind

„Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love.“

—  Sri Chinmoy Indian writer and guru 1931 - 2007

Forrás: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Kontextus: Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love. If we want to define God, we can define Him in millions of ways, but I wish to say that no definition of God can be as adequate as the definition of God as all Love. When we say "God", if fear comes into our mind, then we are millions and billions of miles away from Him. When we repeat the name of God, if love comes to the fore, then our prayer, our concentration, our meditation, our contemplation are genuine.

„It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be“

—  Edith Wharton, könyv The House of Mirth

Forrás: The House of Mirth

„Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.“

—  Annie Dillard American writer 1945

„Turn where you will, everywhere, the man and the woman ever confronting each other, the man who loves a hundred times, the woman who has the power to love so much and to forget so much.“

—  Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935

The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Kontextus: Turn where you will, everywhere, the man and the woman ever confronting each other, the man who loves a hundred times, the woman who has the power to love so much and to forget so much. I went on my way again. I came and went in the midst of the naked truth. I am not a man of peculiar and exceptional traits. I recognise myself in everybody. I have the same desires, the same longings as the ordinary human being. Like everybody else I am a copy of the truth spelled out in the Room, which is, "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die.

„Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.“

—  Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

Forrás: Diaries of Franz Kafka

„If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.“

—  Karl Marx, könyv Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Forrás: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

„Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?“

—  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, könyv Venus in Furs

Forrás: Venus in Furs

„No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.“

—  Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977

June 18, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

„No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.“

—  Jane Austen, könyv Northanger Abbey

Forrás: Northanger Abbey

„If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.“

—  Anne Bradstreet Anglo-American poet 1612 - 1672

To my Dear and Loving Husband.

„No woman ever hates a man
for being in love with her;
but mainly a woman hates a
man for being her friend.“

—  Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744

„O Petronius, thou hast seen what endurance and comfort that religion gives in misfortune, how much patience and courage before death; so come and see how much happiness it gives in ordinary, common days of life. People thus far did not know a God whom man could love, hence they did not love one another; and from that came their misfortune, for as light comes from the sun, so does happiness come from love. Neither lawgivers nor philosophers taught this truth, and it did not exist in Greece or Rome; and when I say, not in Rome, that means the whole world. The dry and cold teaching of the Stoics, to which virtuous people rally, tempers the heart as a sword is tempered, but it makes it indifferent rather than better.“

—  Henryk Sienkiewicz, könyv Quo vadis

Quo Vadis (1895)

„…love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.“

—  David Gemmell, könyv The King Beyond the Gate

Forrás: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22

„The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.“

—  Yves Saint Laurent fashion designer 1936 - 2008

„A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.“

—  Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

„Nothing inspires more courage in a woman than fearlessness in the man she loves.“

—  Antoine François Prévost French novelist 1697 - 1763

Rien n'est plus capable d'inspirer du courage à une femme que l'intrépidité d'un homme qu'elle aime.
Part 2, p. 227; translation p. 132.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)

„I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. “

—  Джон Эрнст Стейнбек 1902 - 1968