Famous Quotes

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

Marilyn Monroe 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 Marilyn Monroe

• "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

• "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

• "I restore myself when I'm alone."

• "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

• "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."