"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy." ~Jean Anouilh

"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime." ~W. H. Auden

"Real love stories never have endings." ~Richard Bach

"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones." ~Richard Bandler

"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex." ~Julian Barnes

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." ~Orlando A. Battista

"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light." ~Jean Baudrillard

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." ~Jean Baudrillard

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." ~Aphra Behn

"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable." ~Andre Breton

"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." ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together." ~Jean De La Bruyere

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem." ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge." ~Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it." ~Miguel De Cervantes

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." ~Mary Cholmondeley

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never." ~Charles Caleb Colton

"Love is a tyrant sparing none." ~Pierre Corneille

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." ~Joan Crawford

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." ~Walt Disney

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds." ~John Dryden

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." ~Albert Einstein

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." ~Matt Groening

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least." ~John Harrigan

"Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves." ~Johann Gottfried Von Herder

"Love is stronger than violence." ~Hermann Hesse

"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life." ~Charles Lamb

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." ~Karl Marx

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic." ~Cesare Pavese

"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain." ~John Selden

"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body." ~Publilius Syrus

"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw

Vegetarians taste better. ~Author Unknown

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. ~Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark

As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget. ~Cloris Leachman

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Think of me tonite For that which you savor Did it give you something real, or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor? ~Wayne K. Tolson, from "Food Forethought"

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon