Love Quotes

• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

  Julie Andrews

• Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

  Saint Thomas Aquinas

• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  James A. Baldwin

• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

• But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• Love that is not madness is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• When love is not madness, it is not love.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

• A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

  Rupert Brooke

• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  Robert Browning

• Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

  Leo Buscaglia

• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

• Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  Honore de Balzac

• Love is the poetry of the senses.

  Honore de Balzac

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

• A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

  Boethius

• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius

• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

  Boethius

• Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

  Boethius

• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

  Boethius

• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers

• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

  Jean de la Bruyere

• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

  Robert Burton

• Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

  Willa Cather

• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

• Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

  David Byrne

• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  Lord Byron

• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

  Thomas Carlyle

• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• 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.

  John Ciardi

• A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

  Frank Howard Clark

• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

  William Congreve

• Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

  Joseph Conrad

• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

• To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

  Henry Drummond

• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

• Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

  Euripides

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

  Erich Fromm

• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

• Love is a game that two can play and both win.

  Eva Gabor

• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

• Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  David Grayson

• Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

• Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

  Ben Hecht

• A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

  Bil Keane

• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  H. L. Mencken

• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

  H. L. Mencken

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

• I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

  George Eliot

• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

  Werner Erhard

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  Nan Fairbrother

• Love is metaphysical gravity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• Where there is love there is life.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Kahlil Gibran

• There is only one terminal dignity - love.

  Helen Hayes

• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

  Audrey Hepburn

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

• I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

  Javan

• Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Javan

• Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

  John Lennon

• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Do all things with love.

  Og Mandino

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  Michel de Montaigne

• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

• 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.

  George Jean Nathan

• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  Anais Nin

• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  Ovid

• If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  Ovid

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  Barbara Pym

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

  Rita Rudner

• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  Bertrand Russell

• Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

  Erich Segal

• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  George Bernard Shaw

• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

  Henri B. Stendhal

• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

• Love is what you've been through with somebody.

  James Thurber

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

• Love is being stupid together.

  Paul Valery

• Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

• Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

  Tammy Wynette

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  Tammy Wynette

• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

  Marcel Proust

• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

  William Shakespeare

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Lao Tzu

• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

  Miguel de Unamuno

• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

  Miguel de Unamuno

• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

  Judith Viorst

• Love conquers all.

  Virgil

• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Oscar Wilde

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