Love Quotes

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

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

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

Nancy Mitford

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Theresa

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Nancy Mitford

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

The world loves to be deceived.

Franck Sebastian

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Zedong

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell, 1984

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.

The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

Janis Joplin

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan