Love Quotes

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

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

Sophocles

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from anothe.

H. L. Mencken

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

M. C. Esche

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

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

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

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

Ramakrishna

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

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

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Kahlil Gibran

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parke

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love.

L. O. Baird

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.

Louis Untermeye

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butle

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis