Love Quotes

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Hermann Hesse

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.

Proverbs 7: 17 - 18

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C. S. Lewis

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Assyrian Prove

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Miguel de Cervantes

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

William Hazlitt

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

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

Jimi Hendrix

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 was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The wise man will love all others will desire.

Afranius

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe