Love Quotes
Adams, Henry
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Alcott, Louisa May
Love is a great beautifier.
Anon.
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Anon.
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Auden, W.H.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Bailey, Gamaliel
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Beecher, Henry Ward
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Bible
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)
Bovee, Christian Nestell
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Bowen, Elizabeth
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except forlove's sake only.
Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way
Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Whoso loves Believes the impossible.
Browning, Robert
Love is energy of life.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Byron, Lord
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Byron, Lord
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Byron, Lord
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
Cervantes, Miguel de
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Chagall, Marc
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Chesterton, G.K.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Ciardi, John
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
Coleridge, Samuel T.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Colton, Charles C.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never.
Corneille, Pierre
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Crisp, Quentin
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Davis, Bette
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
de Staël, Madame
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Dickinson, Emily
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
Dinesen, Isak
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Donne, John
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.
Donne, John
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
Einstein, Albert
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
All mankind loves a lover.
Erdrich, Louise
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Euripides
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Florian, Jean Pierre Claris
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Franklin, Benjamin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Franklin, Benjamin
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
French proverb
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Fromm, Erich
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.
Fromm, Erich
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love
Fuller, Thomas
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Gandhi, Mahatma
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Goncourt
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Gordon, George
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Hubbard, Elbert
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Hughes
Never have partners.
Jerrold, Douglas
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Jong, Erica
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
La Bruyere, Jean
Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
La Fontaine, Jean
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
La Rochefoucauld, François
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
La Rochefoucauld, François
There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
La Rochefoucauld, François
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Lindbergh, Charles A.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Mann, Thomas
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maugham, W. Somerset
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Mencken, H.L.
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Moore, Thomas
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread.
Nathan, George Jean
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
O'Rourke, P J
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Osgood, Samuel
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
Pascal, Blaise
We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Pope, Alexander
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Proverb
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
Proverb
The woman cries before the wedding, the man after.
Roethke, Theodore
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Rowland, Helen
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Russell, Bertrand
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Russell, Bertrand
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Scott, Sir Walter
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Seneca
If you wished to be loved, love.
Shakespeare, William
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
Shakespeare, William
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Shakespeare, William
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Shakespeare, William
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Shakespeare, William
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Shakespeare, William
They do not love that do not show their love.
Shakespeare, William
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (As You Like It)
Shaw, George Bernard
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Stendhal
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Swift, Jonathan
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Temple, William
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Thoreau, Henry David
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Tolstoy, Leo
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Unknown
I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine.
Unknown
If it's wrong to love you, then my heart just wont let me be right.
Unknown
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
Unknown
Love is what the heart needs.
Unknown
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
Unknown
There is only one sort of love but there are athousand of copies.
Unknown
A heart that loves is always young.
Unknown
Love is perfect, even when we are not.
Unknown
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
Unknown
Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
Unknown
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
Unknown
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved’s faults for virtues.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Warhol, Andy
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Wilde, Oscar
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Wilde, Oscar
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Wilde, Oscar
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Wilder, Thornton
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Gottfried
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Williamson, Marianne
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Wyatt, Woodrow
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
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