Love Quotes

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Georges Bernanos

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann von Goethe

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

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

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Swordfish

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love.

Victor Hugo

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

Christopher Darlington Morley

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninge

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tze

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19