Love Quotes

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

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

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

Che

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

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

Homer, The Iliad

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Kim Hubbard

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

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

W. Somerset Maugham

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Andre Maurois

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

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann von Goethe

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

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Mc Leish

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain