Love Quotes

Love is the reason for it all.

Dorothy Fields

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Libbie Fudim

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann von Goethe

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Ukranian Prove

Love is not blind - - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Julian Weber Gordon

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

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

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

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

Mother Teresa

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James Barrie