Love Quotes

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

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)

Love is not blind - - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Julian Weber Gordon

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Prove

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

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

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Robert Henri

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Georges Bernanos

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibbe

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewate

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

Jean Valjean

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Don Byas