Famous Quotes

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

Jean de la Bruyere on Love

More quotes about Love

• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

  Lao Tzu on Love

• "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Love

• "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

  Jim Morrison on Love

• "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Love

• "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

  Bruce Lee on Love

More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

• "They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

• "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

• "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

• "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

• "At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."