Love Quotes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Shakespeare

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

God made man because He loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Saint Augustine

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim Jami

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud