Love Quotes

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

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

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

August Strindberg

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilme

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight.

Christopher Marlowe

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stephenson

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

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

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

Marcel Proust

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

Clarence Jordan

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford