Love Quotes

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

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

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 is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

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

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

- - Aristotle

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

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Dorothy Franken

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

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

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes