Love Quotes

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Poets generally love cats - - Because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Marion Garretty

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

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

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Confucius

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

La Rochefoucauld

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you.

Roy Croft

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge