Love Quotes

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E e cummings

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Nancy Mitford

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marguerite Duras

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

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

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Sibert Cathe

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

Anthony de Mello

I was in love with loving.

Saint Augustine, Confessions

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

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866 - 1916 by Rev. W. Odom

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridges

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart