Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be loved is very demoralizing.
Katharine Hepburn

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
R. Lee Ermey

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthur

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
Jim Carrey