Famous Quotes

"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."

Marilyn French 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 Marilyn French

• "To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

• "Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."

• "Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."

• "Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it."