Love Quotes

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Sophocles

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

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

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

Love is like pi - Natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Farami

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beeche

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Thomas Edward Bodett

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

Report writing, like motor - Car driving and love - Making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Louis Gittne

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beeche

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes