Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

What’s the difference?’ I asked him, ‘Between the love of your life and your soulmate?’ ‘One is a choice, and one is not.’

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly (Anna Karenina)

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

I never met a woman I didn’t like. I love ’em all, in their different ways.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

If you can’t hurt with me, don’t flirt with me.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.