Love Quotes

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget - Me - Nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

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

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

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

John Andrew Holmes

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Winston Churchill

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.

Lauren Edwards

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

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)

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

West African prove

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham