Love Quotes

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

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

Victor Hugo

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Unknown

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

Love is friendship caught on fire.

Unknown

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Roy Croft

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

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

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

Alice Walke

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

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

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

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

Albert Camus

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky