„But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.“

„He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

„Love is for children. I owe him a debt.“

—  Joss Whedon American director, writer, and producer for television and film 1964

„With the man I love who loves me not
I walked in the street-lamps' flare —
But oh, the girls who can ask for love
In the lights of Union Square.“

—  Sara Teasdale American writer and poet 1884 - 1933

"Union Square"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

„How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Fonte: Lady Windermere's Fan

„Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!“

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894

A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".

„Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…“

—  William Shakespeare, livro Romeu e Julieta

Variante: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Fonte: Romeo and Juliet

„Oh promises, promises
I know you've heard them all before
Love is, love is, love is, love is, love is…

Oh well, it's just around the corner“

—  Pete Doherty English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist 1979

"Back From The Dead"
Lyrics and poetry

„I want him to love me as much as I love him.“

—  L.J. Smith American author 1965

Fonte: The Awakening

„I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.“

—  P. D. James, livro The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

„I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries … For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.“

—  Adolf Eichmann German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906 - 1962

As quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).

„I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.“

—  Ned Vizzini, livro It's Kind of a Funny Story

Fonte: It's Kind of a Funny Story

„I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!“

—  Louisa May Alcott, livro Little Women

Amy, in Ch. 42 : All Alone
Little Women (1868)

„I loved him as young Genius loves,
When its own wild and radiant heaven
Of starry thought burns with the light,
The love, the life, by passion given.
I loved him, too, as woman loves--
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn:
Life had no evil destiny
That, with him, I could not have borne!“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

„Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.“

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

„Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world!“

—  Kabir Indian mystic poet 1440 - 1518

Songs of Kabîr (1915)
Contexto: Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

„Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore… and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more…“

—  Libba Bray, livro The Sweet Far Thing

Fonte: The Sweet Far Thing

„I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

„"Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?" she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes glistened with tears. "Who is he? What is he like? As light as a little feather, as a little crumb, but I love him; I love him like a real person. Here he can do nothing, he can't talk, and yet I know what he wants with his little eyes."“

—  Anton Chekhov, livro In the Ravine

Fonte: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 6, pp. 216