Love Quotes

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

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andr Gide

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanie

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot, internet

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle