Love Quotes

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

Joyce Kilme

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E e cummings

Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Anonymous

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

Edna Buchanan

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

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

W. H. Murray

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

Chekov of Tolstoy

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

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

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara