„Ambition is like love, impatient
Both of delays and rivals.“

„The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.“

—  Natalie Clifford Barney writer and salonist 1876 - 1972

In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

„He was meaner, more irritable, more impatient for the ultimate power which could only be his through the elimination of all rivals; and if he had ever had any scruples, any love at all for even a monkey, a book, or a sword-hilt, all this, and even this, had been cauterized and drowned away.“

—  Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968

Fonte: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 58 (p. 704)

„Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…“

—  Henry Taylor English playwright and poet 1800 - 1886

Wisdom.
Notes from Life (1853)

„Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

„If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.“

—  Salman Rushdie, livro The Satanic Verses

Fonte: The Satanic Verses

„Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.“

—  William Goldman, livro The Princess Bride

Fonte: The Princess Bride

„Love's but a frailty of the mind,
When 'tis not with ambition joined.“

—  William Congreve, The Way of the World

Act III, scene xii
The Way of the World (1700)

„When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.“

—  Alex Flinn American children's writer 1966

Fonte: Cloaked

„My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady…“

—  Karen Blixen, livro Seven Gothic Tales

"The Old Chevalier"
Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

„The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.“

—  Djuna Barnes, livro Nightwood

Fonte: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?

„The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition“

—  Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

„Love, though sweet, must know its proper station
And never seek to rival education.“

—  Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995

The Golden Ass (1999)

„Queen Mab: For love men will mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For Love, man will destroy himself, and do so willingly.“

—  Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files

Fonte: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 30

„This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

„What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.“

—  Laura Riding Jackson poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901 - 1991

Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)

„The materials, the colors, were like friendship and love, both wanting to fulfill themselves in the most beautiful form.“

—  Emil Nolde German artist 1867 - 1956

undated quotes

„just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once“

—  Mikhail Bulgakov, livro O Mestre e Margarida

Fonte: The Master and Margarita

„Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.“

—  Christina Rossetti English poet 1830 - 1894

Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„And that's when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.“

—  Donald Miller, livro Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)