Love Quotes

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

Victor Hugo

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

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

Simone de Beauvoi

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton John Sheen

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

Love inspires, illuminates, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Anthony de Mello

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous, Greensleeves

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara DeAngelis

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

June Masters Bache

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

Israel Zangwill

Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.

John Maye

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

La Rochefoucauld

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.

Anacreon

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. When love is not madness, it is not love.

Danish prove

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Kahlil Gibran

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being