Famous Quotes

"We are most alive when we're in love."

John Updike on Love

More quotes about Love

• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

  Lao Tzu on Love

• "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Love

• "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

  Jim Morrison on Love

• "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Love

• "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

  Bruce Lee on Love

More quotes by John Updike

• "Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

• "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

• "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

• "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

• "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."