Love Quotes

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

Matt Groening

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

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

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

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Jimi Hendrix

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.

Anzia Yenerska

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.

John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.

Charles Caleb Colton