Love Quotes

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight.

Christopher Marlowe

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Do what you love and the business will follow.

Michel Fortin

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

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

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Confucius

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Prove

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles