Love Quotes

My version of falling in love is borderline psychotic. Should be avoided at all costs. Get obsessed. Can't fall in love and function at the same time. All-consuming. Tunnel vision. Euphoric.'
– Graham Norton
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
– Chris Noth
If you want your body to be healthier, get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?
– Ted Nugent
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
– Rudolf Nureyev
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
– Richard J. Needham
I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
– Petra Nemcova
There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
– Petra Nemcova
Love is supposed to start with bells ringing and go downhill from there. But it was the opposite for me. There's an intense connection between us, and as we stayed together, the bells rang louder.
– Lisa Niemi
I worked with Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn - one of the greatest comedians and actors that ever lived - and Jimmy Durante. You can't ask for better than that. And it was great format. We had three and a half weeks to work on a show. It was a family-style thing. We used to walk on when someone was doing a handstand, crazy; we'd break them up. And it was great because it was live. They couldn't cut out the mistakes. And that's what audiences love.
– Donald O'Connor
I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.
– Rosie O'Donnell
I love the whole lingerie outfit - you know, thigh-high tights and garters.
– Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.
– Paul O'Neil
Her love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.
– Eugene O'Neill
I love every bone in their heads.
– Eugene O'Neill
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
– Eugene O'Neill
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
– P. J. O'Rourke
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
– P. J. O'Rourke
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
– Ann Oakley
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
– Conor Oberst
Suddenly life has new meaning to me,There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, You wake up suddenly you're in love.
– Billy Ocean
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
– Sadaharu Oh
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
– Mary Oliver
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
– Sir Laurence Olivier
I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.
– David Ortiz
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
– George Orwell
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
– George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
– George Orwell
I really like this band called Elkland (synthpop from New York), they are gonna be huge. I also love Bloc Party, Razorlight, etc. But I'll always stay true to my Human League roots.
– Kelly Osbourne
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
– Fulton Oursler
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
– Mark Overby
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
– Ovid
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
– Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
– Ovid
Love is full of anxious fears.
– Ovid
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
– Ovid
I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
– Clive Owen
As far as food goes, I'm pretty easy. I love Japanese food. I love meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I love spaghetti. I'm easy.
– Frank Oz
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
– Bette Page
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
– Thomas Paine
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
– Michael Palin
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
– Anne Parillaud
Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
– Anne Parillaud
No one is truly doing very well. One surely isn't here to do well. Surely we have another purpose: Perhaps to know who one is, to know that which makes us suffer and that which causes suffering for others; maybe to love someone... Perfection is the ability to admit imperfection.
– Anne Parillaud
I love Joan's indomitability and intelligence. She's very courageous. And she's a hell of a kisser.
– Robert Parker
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
– Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
– Blaise Pascal
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
– Boris Pasternak
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
– Boris Pasternak
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
– Boris Pasternak
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
– Alan Paton
I love flags... I think of the men and women of the armed forces that fight to protect peace and freedom. When I was a very small child I went with my grandfather, who was a Lt. Colonel in the US Army and served the country through four wars - WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam - to Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is one of my earliest memories.
– Robert Patrick
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
– Saint Patrick
You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing is not for one person to write to Christ but for many people to love and emulate you. Fortunately, despite everything, this still occurs today.
– Pope John Paul I
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
– Pope John Paul II
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
– Pope John Paul II
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
– Pope Paul VI
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
– Cesare Pavese
Love is the cheapest of religions.
– Cesare Pavese
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
– Cesare Pavese
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.
– Norman Vincent Peale
When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.
– Guy Pearce
But when it first beginneth in a superior person, the proper effect which it createth in an inferior, is not of a single nature, but such a love as is mingled with duty and respect.
– John Pearson
In this the similitude is so great, that there is no difference in the nature of the love produced, and that which did produce it.
– John Pearson
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
– John Pearson
Love, when in an equal, commandeth love; and this is so just, that fire doth not more naturally create a flame.
– John Pearson
Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.
– John Pearson
The love of God to man challengeth love from us, but that of such a nature as cannot be demonstrated but by obedience; and that of a Father to his Son is of the same condition, though not in the same proportion.
– John Pearson
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be acheinved only through persistent exercise of real love.
– M. Scott Peck
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
– Charles Peguy
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
– William Penn
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
– William Penn
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
– Walker Percy
By this time I had fallen in love with him as we both came from the same type of humble back ground. Also because he put his energy behind working people. With the power of the shirtless ones (the poor) he was swept to power. He was then put under arrest so we decided to get married secretly .
– Evita Peron
I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
– Evita Peron
I love the idea of the one but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.
– Matthew Perry
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
– Matthew Perry
I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up. If I could have beaten him six-minus-one instead of six-love I would.
– Fred Perry
It's a very nostalgic place. I've had a love affair with Wimbledon ever since I can remember. It stays with you.
– Fred Perry
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
– Troy Perry
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
– William Petersen
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
– Francesco Petrarch
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
– William Lyon Phelps
I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.
– Michael Phelps
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
– Emo Philips
I told them I was tired of being in the magazines, and how they made it sound like I love them and want girls so badly to buy them. I'm also doing a photo shoot in a couple of weeks - good honest pictures. They're going to print these pictures anyway, so they might as well be pictures of what I'm really like.
– River Phoenix
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
– Peace Pilgrim
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
– Peace Pilgrim
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
– Peace Pilgrim
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
– Luigi Pirandello
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
– Luigi Pirandello
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
– Robert Plant
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
– Robert Plant
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
– Roman Polanski
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.
– Cole Porter
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
– Cole Porter
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
– Cole Porter