Love Quotes

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann von Goethe

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Unknown

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Pascal

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

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

One must love a cat on its own terms.

Peter Gray

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

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

John 1335 Bible

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - - No wonder, then, that I return the love.

Soren Kierkegaard

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Madame Necke

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

Nancy Mitford

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills