Love Quotes

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

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 not.

Henry Van Dyke

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Rilke

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Marlene Dietrich

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

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Don Byas

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Joan Borysenko

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

Robert Burton

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

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

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

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Robert Henri

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

Helen Rowland

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son - In - Law.

Jewish Prove

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne