Love Quotes

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewate

We are what we love, not what loves us.

Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

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

Alicia Barnhart

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Charles Caleb Colton

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Shakespeare

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Rilke

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

Robert Frost

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 fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

King Soloman

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - - Only with what you are expecting to give - - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano