Love

222 quotes.

• Love is not consolation. It is light.

  Simone Weil

• We are most alive when we're in love.

  John Updike

• Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• ...Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to. remove.

  Anonymous

• A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  Arthur Miller, The Crucible

• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

• A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

  Doris Wild Helmering

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

  Pearl Buck

• A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

  Anonymous

• A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth - with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished.

  Anonymous

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

• A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

  Anonymous

• A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

• A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

  Anonymous

• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Anonymous

• A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

  Anonymous

• A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

  Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

• After the verb "to love," "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

  Anonymous

• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Jeanne Moreau

• 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.

  W. H. Auden

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common donominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  Anonymous

• And again and again fell the world like the ebb of a dying sea.

  Anonymous

• Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning -- definitely the sensation of belonging there.

  E. B. White

• But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

  Anonymous

• Distance makes the heart grow stronger, not fonder.

  Anonymous

• Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

  Anonymous

• Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Anonymous

• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  Anonymous

• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  Anonymous

• Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

  Swedish Proverb

• Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

  Anonymous

• Follow love and it will flee, Flee love and it will follow thee.

  Anonymous

• For an instant, love can transform the world.

  Anonymous

• For one man is my world of all the men This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

  Anonymous

• Friendship is love with wings.

  Anonymous

• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

• Gather ye rosebuds whil ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

  Anonymous

• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

  Anonymous

• God is love, but get it in writing.

  Anonymous

• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

• Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true.

  Anonymous

• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  Anonymous

• He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides.

  Anonymous

• He who is not impatient is not in love.

  Anonymous

• He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

  Anonymous

• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

  Anonymous

• His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

  Seneca

• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my dutiesas king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love.

  Anonymous

• I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anonymous

• I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

  Anonymous

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Anonymous

• I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives but women when they love give everything.

  Anonymous

• I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV.

  Anonymous

• I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.

  Anonymous

• If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

  Anonymous

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense.

  Ray Bradbury

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

  Anonymous

• If you want to be loved, be loveable.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

  Anonymous

• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

• Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.

  Judith Viorst

• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

  Anonymous

• It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  Anonymous

• It is never too late to fall in love.

  Anonymous

• It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true ... it shows the essence of falling in love.

  Jan Harlan

• It is terrible to be alone, and it is terrible to be in love, but one is cheaper than the other.

  Anonymous

• It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

  Anonymous

• It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of Do or Die! The world will always welcome lovers, As time goes by.

  Anonymous

• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

  Anonymous

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tse

• Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

  Hermi Frederic Amiel

• Listen to your heart, because in the end, it is your heart that counts.

  Jennifer Tyler

• Love and cowardice are really the same thing.

  Anonymous

• Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossossion.

  Anonymous

• Love can never grow old, Locks may lose their brown and gold, Cheeks may fade and hollow grow, But the hearts that love will know Never winter's frost and chill, Summer's warmth is in them still.

  Anonymous

• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

  Anonymous

• Love dies only when growth stops.

  Anonymous

• Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

  Anonymous

• Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

  Anonymous

• Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

  Anonymous

• Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

  Swedenborg

• Love is I know not what, which comes from I know not where and finishes I know not how.

  Anonymous

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

  Voltaire

• Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.

  Anonymous

• Love is a hole in the heart.

  Ben Hecht

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

  Anonymous

• Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

  Robert Frost

• Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it.

  Anonymous

• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

• Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain hidden somewhere.

  Anonymous

• Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.

  Anonymous

• Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

  Lisa Hoffman

• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

  Anonymous

• Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

  Nietchze

• Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.

  Anonymous

• Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

  Anonymous

• Love is love's reward.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

  Rabbi Julins Gordon

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

  W. Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

• Love is supposed to start with bells ringing and go downhill from there. But it was the opposite for me. There's an intense connection between us, and as we stayed together, the bells rang louder.

  Anonymous

• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

  Anonymous

• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existance.

  Anonymous

• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

  Victor Frankel

• Love is the only weapon we need.

  Anonymous

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  Henry Louis Mencken

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  Anonymous

• Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

  Anonymous

• Love means never having to say you are sorry.

  Anonymous

• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

  William Shakespeare

• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Anonymous

• Love, like death, changes everything.

  Anonymous

• Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  Anonymous

• Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

  Anonymous

• Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.

  Anonymous

• Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

  Anonymous

• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.

  Anonymous

• Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth.

  Anonymous

• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.

  Anonymous

• Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

  R. Drabek

• Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

• My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

  Jennifer Tyler

• Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

  Nelson Rockefeller

• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

  Anonymous

• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Anonymous

• No one acts more foolishly than a wise man in love.

  Anonymous

• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

  Anonymous

• No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

• Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

  Anonymous

• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  Charlie Brown

• O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken...

  Anonymous

• O, tell her, brief is life, but love is long.

  Anonymous

• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

  Anonymous

• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

  Anonymous

• Only connect...

  Anonymous

• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

  Anonymous

• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  Ken Kesey

• Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

  Winnie the Pooh

• Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon -- and a mother's love.

  Anonymous

• Relationships are like crystals, you don't realise how much you love it until it breaks.

  Anonymous

• Respect is love in plain clothes.

  Anonymous

• Second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning.

  Anonymous

• So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness - united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, differences, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

  Anonymous

• 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.

  Anonymous

• Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

  Anonymous

• Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress, but I repeat myself.

  Anonymous

• Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

  Anonymous

• The best portion of a good man's life--his little, namesless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

• The fickleness of the woman I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

  Anonymous

• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Anonymous

• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

• The heart that loves is always young.

  Anonymous

• The honey is sweet, but the bee has a sting.

  Anonymous

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

  Mother Teresa

• The love we give away is the only one we keep.

  Anonymous

• The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

  Anonymous

• The more you judge, the less you love.

  Anonymous

• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

  Anonymous

• The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

  Anonymous

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

  Anonymous

• The world is hollow for I have touched the sky.

  Anonymous

• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only` a few will catch your heart . . . pursue those.

  Anonymous

• There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

  Anonymous

• There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

• There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

  Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

• There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love.

  Anonymous

• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

  Anonymous

• There is no fear in love; but perfect love drives out fear.

  Anonymous

• There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its silken wings.

  Anonymous

• This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  Anonymous

• Thou art my own, my darling and my wife; And when we pass into another life, Still thou art mine. All this which now we see Is but the childhood of eternity.

  Anonymous

• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Anonymous

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

  Anonymous

• To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary youngwoman for a goddess.

  Anonymous

• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

  Anonymous

• To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved.

  Anonymous

• To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden.

  Anonymous

• To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

  Gottfried von Leibnitz

• To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.

  Woody Allen

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Anonymous

• To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world.

  Anonymous

• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

  Anonymous

• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

  Og Mandino

• True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost.

  Anonymous

• Two roads diverged in the wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Anonymous

• Value yourself. The only people who apprecaite a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

  Anonymous

• Very few people chose war, They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  Dave Dellinger

• We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

  Anonymous

• We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

• We are each of us in this world an angel with only one wing. In order to fly we must embrace each other.

  Cassandra Reed

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

  Johann von Goethe

• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they loved.

  Anonymous

• When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything..

  Anonymous

• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

  Anonymous

• Where there is love there is no sin.

  Anonymous

• Who loves, raves.

  Anonymous

• Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

  Anonymous

• Why did she love him ? Curious fool - be still - Is human love the growth of the human will ?

  Anonymous

• Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

  Anonymous

• Words and hearts should be handled with care for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.

  Anonymous

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Kahlil Gibran

• You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

  Anonymous

• You cannot win a woman just the once and be done with it; you have to humiliate yourself again and again.

  Anonymous

• You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

  Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

• You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

  Anonymous

• You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

  Anonymous

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

  Henry Drummond

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

  Henry Drummond

• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

  Anne Frank

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