Love Quotes

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
– Blaise Pascal
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
– George S. Patton
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
– Pope John Paul II
Ultimately love is everything.
– M. Scott Peck
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
– Pablo Picasso
Love is a serious mental disease.
– Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
– Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
– Plato
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
– Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
– Edgar Allan Poe
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
– Barbara Pym
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
– Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
– Ayn Rand
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
– Ayn Rand
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
– Ronald Reagan
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
– Arthur Rimbaud
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
– Julia Roberts
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
– Julia Roberts
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
– Mitt Romney
The giving of love is an education in itself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
– Christina G. Rossetti
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
– Helen Rowland
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
– Helen Rowland
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
– Bertrand Russell
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
– Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
– Rumi
Love is friendship set on fire.
– Jeremy Taylor
Love is the only gold.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
– Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
– Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
– Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
– Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
– Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
– Mother Teresa
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
– Margaret Thatcher
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
– Dylan Thomas
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
– Henry David Thoreau
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
– James Thurber
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
– Leo Tolstoy
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
– Lily Tomlin
If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
– Rip Torn
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
– Donald Trump
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Love is being stupid together.
– Paul Valery
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
– Judith Viorst
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
– Voltaire
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
– Paul Walker
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
– William Arthur Ward
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
– Orson Welles
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
– Mae West
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
– Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
– Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
– Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
– Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
– Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
– Oscar Wilde
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
– Thornton Wilder
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
– Venus Williams
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
– Marianne Williamson
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
– Oprah Winfrey
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
– Virginia Woolf
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
– David Wilkerson
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
– Tammy Wynette
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
– Tammy Wynette
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
– Loretta Young
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
– James Baldwin
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
– La Bruyere
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
– ­Marion Evans Cross
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.
– Javan
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
– Stendhal
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
– Anna Louise Strong
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
– Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
– Angelina Jolie
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
– Jeanne Moreau
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
– Mother Teresa
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
– Anais Nin
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
– William Shakespeare
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
– William Shakespeare
We are most alive when we're in love.
– John Updike
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
– Virgil
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
– Oscar Wilde
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
– Aldous Huxley
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
– Frank Sinatra
You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
– Charlie Sheen