Quotes About Love VI

 Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma

Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Bible - Leviticus

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Bible - St Matthew

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating, and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
Germaine Greer

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
Giuseppi di Lampedusa

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . love.
William S. Burroughs
His last words.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Tis a woman's whole existence.
Lord Byron

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Bible - Song of Solomon

Men always want to be a woman's first love…women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Money can't buy me love.
John Lennon & Paul McCartney

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.
Bible - Song of Solomon

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
Bible - Song of Solomon

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Thomas Moore

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

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger

O my Luve's like a red, red rose 
That's newly sprung in June! 
O my Luve's like the melodie 
That's sweetly play'd in tune!
Robert Burns

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

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
William Butler Yeats

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia

Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Thyra Samter Winslow

"Pooh, promise me you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I am a hundred."
Pooh thought for a little.
"How old shall I be then?"
"Ninety-nine."
Pooh nodded. "I promise," he said.
A. A. Milne

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Albert Einstein

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Bible - Song of Solomon

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare

Some people care too much, I think it's called love.
Winnie the Pooh

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

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa

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

Quotes About Love V

Love is like a flower: Once you pick it, it slowly dies.
Author unknown

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

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Author unknown

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
But somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby

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

Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John Keats

Love is not blind - it sees more not less; 
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
Rabbi Julins Gordon

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
William Somerset Maugham

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality … the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
José Ortega y Gasset

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
Julie Marie

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton

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

Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Judith Viorst

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Hoosier Farmer

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

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

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

Love is where smiles abound, spirits soar and joy is found.
Charles Dray

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
And therefore is winged cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
French Proverb

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig

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

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Quotes About Love IV

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.
Marcel Proust

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do . . . but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
Javan (Steven Javan Jones)

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare

Love conquers all things.
Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Ranier Maria Rilke

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 Baldwin

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give — which is everything.
Author Unknown

Love hath made thee a tame snake.
William Shakespeare

Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay 
Love isn't love until you give it away.
Oscar Hammerstein

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford

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

Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.
John Dryden

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

Love is a smoke raised 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.
William Shakespeare

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

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 an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Thomas Dewar

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

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

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
Julian Barnes

Quotes About Love III

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)


I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning


I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Roy Croft


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.
Victor Hugo


I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher


I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Rabindranath Tagore


I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.
Bible - Song of Solomon


I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.


I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen


I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands.
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
William Butler Yeats


I, being, poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats


If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse


If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare


If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton


If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
James M. Barrie


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


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.
Winnie the Pooh


If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran


If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
Author Unknown


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


If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid


I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
Homer Simpson


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


In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates


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.
Marc Chagall


In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson


In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
Hans Nouwens


Infatuation is when you think that 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 Connors. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst


It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw


It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel De Unamuno


Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Quotes About Love II

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.
Lady Gaga

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Bible - Proverbs

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II

Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare

Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
William Butler Yeats

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
T. S. Eliot

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John Donne

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

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

For, you see, each day I love you more, 
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!
Author unknown

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Hatred can be overcome only by love.
Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
Oscar Wilde

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
James Joyce

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
John Steinbeck

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan (Steven Javan Jones)