It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
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Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
