Love Quotes

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stephenson

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

Motherhood All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

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

He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

Edwin Markham

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

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

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

In love, one and one are one.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford