Love Quotes

Hermann hesse - love of god is not always the same as love of...
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
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bertrand russell, the conquest of happiness - the man who suffers from a sense of sin is...
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann von Goethe
Whom the gods love dies young.
Menander, The Double Deceive
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.
Erich Fromm
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates
Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
Annie Sullivan
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.
Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara DeAngelis
Groucho marx,
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
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
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
Jonathan Swift
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tze
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.
Maureen Hawkins
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
John Ray
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.
Marysarah Quinn
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Jelaluddin Rumi
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.
Ted Rall
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Ronald David Laing
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
John Christian Bovee