Love Quotes
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.Kahlil Gibran
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.Nancy Mitford
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.Woody Allen
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.Rainer Maria Rilke
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 Romania.Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.Martin Luther King
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.Mother Teresa
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
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
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
Love will find a lay.Robert Byrne
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.George Santayana
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.Russell Bake
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.Bertrand Russell
If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04
If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.Hugh Elliott
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.Sir Thomas More
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.Colin Raye
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.Blaise Pascal
Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.Christina Georgina Rossetti
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.Matt Groening
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.Anthony Perkins
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.Friedrich Nietzsche
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.Quentin Crisp
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."Swedish Proverb".
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.Sidney Poitie
