Love Quotes

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
– Real Live Preacher
The pleasure of love is in loving.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
– Rita Rudner
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
– Saint Augustine
I was in love with loving.
– Saint Augustine
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
– Saint Francis of Assisi
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
In love, one and one are one.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.
– Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
– Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
– Charles M. Schulz
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
– Morrie Schwartz
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
– Erich Segal
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
– William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
– William Shakespeare
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
– William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
– William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
– William Shakespeare
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
– William Shakespeare
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
– William Shakespeare
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
– William Shakespeare
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
– William Shakespeare
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
– William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
– William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
– William Shakespeare
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
– George Bernard Shaw
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
– Fulton J. Sheen
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
– John Sheffield
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
– Dinah Shore
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
– Logan Pearsall Smith
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
– Don Snyder
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
– Socrates
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
– Sophocles
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
– Britney Spears
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
– Karen Sunde
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
– Sonia Taitz
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know? They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go? ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.
– Rogers Turrentine
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
– Anne Tyler
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
– Unknown
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
– Virgil
Love truth, and pardon error.
– Voltaire
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
– Alan W. Watts
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
– Oscar Wilde
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
– Oprah Winfrey
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
– Oprah Winfrey
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
– Oprah Winfrey
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
– Chuck Palahniuk
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
– Chuck Palahniuk
You know that saying about how you always kill the one you love? It works both ways.
– Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
– Chuck Palahniuk
If you love something set it free...but don't be surprised when it comes back with herpes.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
– Eminem
You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me
– Eminem
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
– Steve Jobs
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
– Desmond Tutu
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
– Mason Cooley
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
– Roger Ascham
You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
– R. Kelly
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
– Zakk Wylde
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
– Georg Buchner
You think intercourse is a private act it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
– Andrea Dworkin
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
– Francoise Sagan
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
– Maya Lin
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
– Adriana Trigiani
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
– Candace Bushnell
You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
– Kenny Loggins
You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
– Chris Daughtry
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
– Tom Hiddleston
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
– Slash
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
– Courtney Thorne Smith
You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
– Jane Campion
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
– Jennifer Lopez
You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.
– Jennifer Aniston
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
– Whoopi Goldberg
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.
– Andrew Sullivan
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
– Tom Waits
You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
– Allan Houston
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
– Ted Olson
You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
– Mena Suvari
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
– Martha Beck
You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
– Olympia Dukakis
You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
– Regina King
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
– Geraldine Brooks
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
– Joe Moore
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
– Keith Sweat
You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
– John Krasinski
You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.
– Piper Perabo
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
– Francesca Annis
You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
– Salma Hayek