If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. I John 4:16-21
I know a few things about love. Horrible terrible awful awful things. The Office US s5e24: Heavy Competition, Andy, NBC 2009
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Sri Chinmoy Ghose, attributed variously inc Jim Hendrix and John Lennon
I’ve been so foolish. I’ve fallen in love. Brief Encounter 1946 starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard & Stanley Holloway & Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond & Everley Gregg & Marjorie Mars & Margaret Barton & Alfie Bass & Wallace Bosco & Sydney Bromley et al, director David Lean
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. Leo Tolstoy
The childishness of her expression, together with the delicate beauty of her figure, made up her special charm, and that he fully realized. But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world, where he felt himself softened and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Levin on Kitty ch9
Men do these things. Anna Karenina 1985 starring Jaqueline Bisset & Christopher Reeve & Paul Scofield & Ian Ogilvy & Anna Massey & Joanna David & Judi Bowker & Valerie Lush & Judy Campbell et al, director Simon Langton, Anna to sister in law
I know what it was. We both do. ibid. Vronsky
I will leave this room. I will leave this house. I will be his. I will have him. I love him. ibid. Anna to hubby
Why isn’t love enough? ibid. Anna to Vronsky
Oh to be your age again. Surrounded by that blue mist. Anna Karenina 2012 starring Keira Knightley & Jude Law & Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Kelly MacDonald & Ruth Wilson & Matthew MacFadyen & Alicia Vikander & Olivia Williams & Emily Watson & Michelle Dockery & Holliday Grainger et al, director Joe Wright, Anna
I’m damned anyway. ibid. Anna
I love him. I am his mistress. ibid. Anna to husband
I’m having his child. ibid.
I’m a bad woman. ibid.
I die for love. Pretty fucking cool way to go. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman 2013 starring Shia LaBeouf & Evan Rachel Wood & Mads Mikkelsen & Til Schweiger & Rupert Grint & Aubrey Plaza & James Buckley & Ion Caramitru & Vincent D'Onofrio & Melissa Leon et al, director Fredrik Bond
I’m not a smart man but I know what love is. Forrest Gump ***** 1994 starring Tom Hanks & Robin Wright & Gary Sinise & Mykelti Williamson & Sally Field & Haley Joel Osment & Peter Dobson & Dick Cavett & Sam Anderson & Geoffrey Blake & Siobhan Fallon et al, director Robert Zemeckis, him to her
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Why did you betray your own heart Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself ... You loved me – then what right had you to leave me? ... I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. ibid.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! ibid.
I asked you if you loved me. Nothing, Rab. To avoid giving me an answer you feined an epileptic seizure. Rab C Nesbitt: Love s4e1, Mary, BBC 1994
That song was All You Need is Love … We were swept up by the sense of hope that love was all you needed. The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman s1e1: All You Need is Love, National Geographic 2017
Is it really naive to think that love can change the world? ibid.
Human society may not have made it without this kind of love … It’s the basic glue that holds mankind together. ibid.
Love is at the root of everything. Fred Rogers, cited Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 2018
I see what I want to see. That’s what love is. Prizzi’s Honor 1985 starring Jack Nicholson & Kathleen Turner & Anjelica Huston & Robert Loggia & John Randolph & William Hickey & Lee Richardson & Michael Lombard & C C H Pounder & Stanley Tucci & Lawrence Tierney et al, director John Huston, him to her
I was in Portland, Oregon, exploring a radically different way of looking at love. Polyamory is the practise of pursuing multiple romantic relationships with the consent of all those involved. It promises more emotional and sexual fulfilment but with freedom can come jealousy. Louis Theroux’s Altered States I: Love Without Marriage, BBC 2018
For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. Pali Tipitaka
Love is shown in your deeds not in your words. Father Jerome Cummings
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John LeCarre
Have you ever loved someone so much that you threw acid in their face? Have you ever been so desperate to be loved that you married them after they threw acid in your face? No, right, that’s because Burt and Linda Pugach True Crime Recaps: Blinded by Love: Acid Attack Victim Marries Attacker! Youtube 11.50, 2023
The craziest crime of passion in New York history. ibid.