Love Quotes

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

M. C. Esche

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

La Rochefoucald

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Alexander Smith

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.

Lauren Edwards

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalie

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

There is no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

Robert Frost

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus