Quotation by

Alphonse de Lamartine

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Love

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Loving someone because you want to receive love in return is a natural, human feeling. However, loving simply because you want to love, without expecting anything back, is a pure and selfless act.

More by this author

All quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine →

More quotes about Love

See all →

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and …

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.