Love Quotes

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
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
– Leo Tolstoy
People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
– Robert Towne
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
– Thomas Traherne
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
– Thomas Traherne
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
– Thomas Traherne
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
– Thomas Traherne
I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.
– Randy Travis
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
– Randy Travis
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
– Anthony Trollope
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
– Anthony Trollope
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
– Ted Turner
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
– Mark Twain
I don't want to spend so much time obsessing about myself. I love to cook and I love to eat. And yet, if I am not careful, I could be considered chubby in the film business. That's why it is great for me not to live in Hollywood. I love to go to the country where I can wear my pajamas all day long if I want.
– Liv Tyler
Love what I do and I have no regrets, but the people I care about are by far the most important thing. I would kill for them. They make my life worth living.
– Liv Tyler
Love is not singular except in syllable.
– Marvin Taylor
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals love them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
– Edwin Way Teale
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
– Emmanuel Teney
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
– Nikola Tesla
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
– U. Thant
I won't tell you about the love that happened when I was three years old, but I can tell you about my first marriage.
– Leon Theremin
I feel really lucky to have the body I have; I love it!
– Charlize Theron
I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
– Charlize Theron
It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.
– Irene Thomas
'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
– Frederick William Thomas
As far as I can see, from Sharon Stone's love scene in Basic Instinct, they molded her body out of tough Plasticine. She was shagging Michael Douglas like a donkey, and not an inch moved. If that had been me, there would have been things flying around hitting me in the eye.
– Emma Thompson
What is love but an allergic reaction to the proper lighting!
– Scott Thompson
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
– Kerry Thornley
Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love.
– Kerry Thornley
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
– Jeremy Thorpe
Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.
– Lawrence Tierney
Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.
– Justin Timberlake
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
– Paul Tournier
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
– Margaret Truman
What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
– Marina Tsvetaeva
I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.
– Christy Turlington
What am I wearing? Hmmm, I'd love to tell you something slinky and sexy, but usually it's an old T-shirt.
– Aisha Tyler
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
– Morihei Ueshiba
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
– Miguel de Unamuno
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
– Miguel de Unamuno
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
– Miguel de Unamuno
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
– Evelyn Underhill
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
– Gabrielle Union
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
– Louis Untermeyer
It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
– John Updike
Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to prove their love like a moose needs a hat rack.
– Abigail Van Buren
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
– Mark Van Doren
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
– Henry Van Dyke
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
– Henry Van Dyke
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
– Henry Van Dyke
Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
– Vincent van Gogh
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
– Vincent van Gogh
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
– Harriet Van Horne
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
– Steve Vai
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
– Marguerite de Valois
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
– Amy Vanderbilt
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
– Raoul Vaneigem
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
– Raoul Vaneigem
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
– Bill Vaughan
The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them.
– Bill Vaughn
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
– Carl Van Vechten
The love received is the love that is saved.
– Eddie Vedder
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
– Bill Veeck
Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
– Conrad Veidt
I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
– Ben Vereen
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
– Mildred B. Vermont
Do we wonder then, that, as this momentary petrifaction of the heart goes on, we are every day more and more strangers in this world of love, holding no communion with the Universal Parent, and hoarding up instead of distributing His general gifts?
– Jones Very
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
– Gore Vidal
Offended self-love never forgives.
– Jean Baptiste Etienne Vigee
I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.
– Gilles Villeneuve
For all true love is grounded on esteem.
– George Villiers
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
– Judith Viorst
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
– Judith Viorst
I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
– Nana Visitor
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
– Voltaire
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
– Voltaire
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
– Denis Waitley
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
– Lech Walesa
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
– Edmund Waller
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
– Edmund Waller
So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love.
– Edmund Waller
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
– Edmund Waller
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
– Izaak Walton
I love to cheer, and yell, and joke and to celebrate the best basketball in the world. And to see these new players, to see how good they are-guys like Paul Pierce and Jason Kidd and, of course, Shaq and Kobe, who are just off the charts. It's a real pleasure.
– Bill Walton
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
– Andy Warhol
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
– Andy Warhol
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
– Andy Warhol
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
– John Waters
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
– Roger Waters
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
– Daniel Webster
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
– Simone Weil