Quotes about love

My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyWhite Nights"Morning" (the last section)

Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 6, chapter 3 ("Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima"), section (g) ("Of Prayer, of Love, and of Contact with other Worlds")Father Zosima

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 1, Book 2, chapter 4 ("A Lady of Little Faith")An unnamed elderly doctor, as reported by Father Zosima

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 1, Book 2, chapter 4 ("A Lady of Little Faith")Father Zosima

Love life more than the meaning of it.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 5, chapter 3 ("The Brothers Make Friends")Alyosha Karamazov, answering Ivan's question

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the great thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManChapter 5The ridiculous man

To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe AdolescentPart 2, chapter 1, section 4Andrei Petrovich Versilov

People, love one another — who said that? Whose commandment is that?

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Meek OneChapter 2, section 4 ("Only Five Minutes Too Late")The pawnbroker, the story's narrator

Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 5, chapter 3 ("The Brothers Make Friends")Ivan Karamazov

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 6, chapter 3 ("Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima"), section (i) ("Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystic Reflection")Father Zosima