Love Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Anonymous

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Henri De Montherlant

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann von Goethe

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Alexandre Dumas

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

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

Kahlil Gibran

The world loves to be deceived.

Franck Sebastian

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.

Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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 politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Roy Croft