Love Quotes

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. When love is not madness, it is not love.

Danish prove

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

Aeschylus

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Unknown

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.

Proverbs 7: 17 - 18

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.

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

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

The wise man will love all others will desire.

Afranius

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Elde

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois