Love Quotes

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beeche

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck

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

Iris Murdoch

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stephenson

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Virgil

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann von Goethe

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berge

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Henry David Thoreau

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw