Love Quotes

"Caresses express a desire that cannot be satisfied by possession."

"To love is to will the good of the Other without return."

"Love seeks the good of the Other, not the other's love in return."

"To truly know another person, we must encounter them in their wholeness, not as an object."

"Love breaks through the walls of rational calculation and opens us to the infinite."

"Love is not a feeling but a decision to orient oneself toward the good of the other."

"Love is the attempt to touch the infinite in another being."

"Love teaches us that we are not sovereign over ourselves."

"Love is not a political virtue; it cannot be systematized or enforced."

"Love is something more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"Lust is the most human of all desires."

"To love is to lose control."

"The erotic experience is the dissolution of form."

"Desire is always the desire for something we cannot have."

"Love is the only religion that never lies."

"The life of dialogue is fulfilled not in the individual, but in the genuine meeting of one with another."

"The relation is reciprocity. If I am to have a genuine meeting with another, I must willingly enter into his reality."

"Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou."

"The relation I-Thou is immediate. No system of ideas, no foreknowledge, and no fancy intervene between I and Thou."

"To love another is to say: it is well that you exist."

"In the I-Thou relation, both partners are transformed."

"Love is the only force that alters the direction of destructive impulses."

"To love truly is to will the good of another without demanding recognition."

"The caress seeks what lies beyond the skin, beyond being itself."

"Desire is the yearning for what cannot be possessed or consumed."

"Love demands that we risk ourselves completely in relationship with another."

"Love is the revelation of meaning in another's existence."

"To love is to affirm the other beyond all reason."

"Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other."

"Every real relationship is exclusive."