Love Quotes

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
– Merle Shain
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
– Elbert Hubbard
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
– Ken Kesey
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
– Robert Browning
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
– Augustus Hare
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
– Lord Byron
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
– Anton Chekhov
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
– William Hazlitt
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
– William Shakespeare
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
– Constantin Stanislavski
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
– Aaron Carter
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
– Maya Angelou
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
– Thomas Merton
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
– Zane Grey
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
– Joseph Butler
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
– Mae West
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
– Marianne Williamson
Love is trembling happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
– Samuel Johnson
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
– Madame de Stael
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
– Henry Van Dyke
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso
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 the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
– David Frost
Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.
– Emilie de Ravin
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
– Moliere
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
– Brittany Snow
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
– Bryan Cranston
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
– Michael Novak
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
– Jesse Ventura
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
– Robert Wyatt
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson
Love is based on imagination.
– Olivier Martinez
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
– George Best
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
– Peter Ustinov
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
– Madame de Stael
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
– Gustave Flaubert
Love is a friendship set to music.
– Joseph Campbell
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
– Ani Difranco
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
– Edward Abbey
Love has no age, no limit and no death.
– John Galsworthy
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
– Donald Trump
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
– Zane Grey
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
– Stendhal
Love food and I love to eat.
– Salma Hayek
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
– Joyce Cary
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
– Dorothy Day
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
– Hector Berlioz
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
– Samuel Richardson
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
– James Joyce
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
– Joseph Joubert
Love and friendship exclude each other.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
– Cornel West
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
– Eustace Budgell
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
– Julie Burchill
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
– Imelda Staunton
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
– Eric Cantor
Look your best - who said love is blind?
– Mae West
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
– George Eliot
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
– Glenn Hughes
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
– James Brown
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
– Billy Corgan
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
– Julia Roberts
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
Life is best when you are in love.
– Michael Moriarty
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
– Giada De Laurentiis
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
– Noel Coward
Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
– Vera Wang
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
– Michael Jackson
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
– Wislawa Szymborska
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
– Halle Berry
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
– Adam Clarke
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
– Luciano Pavarotti
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
– Timothy Olyphant
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
– Karl Marx
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.
– Kevin Rudd
L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
– Shooter Jennings
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
– Jerry Saltz
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
– Yoko Ono
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
– Kaley Cuoco
Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
– Channing Tatum
Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
– Pat Robertson
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
– George Meredith
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
– Lil Wayne
It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.
– Roger Moore
It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.
– Leighton Meester
It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.
– Stephanie Mills
It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
– Kate Bosworth
It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
– Sandra Lee