Love Quotes

Love is the river of life in the world.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the poetry of the senses.
– Honore de Balzac
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
– Theodor Adorno
Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
– John Wooden
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
– John Lennon
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
– Wayne Dyer
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
– Ray Bradbury
Love is not consolation. It is light.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
– Erich Fromm
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
– Maya Angelou
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
– Ray Bradbury
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
– Alexander Smith
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
– Octavio Paz
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is always being given where it is not required.
– E. M. Forster
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
– Paulo Coelho
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
– William Shakespeare
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
– Victor Hugo
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
– George Bernard Shaw
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
– Fulton J. Sheen
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
– Meir Kahane
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
– Elbert Hubbard
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
– Mortimer Adler
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
– Paulo Coelho
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
– Sigmund Freud
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
– Khalil Gibran
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
– St. Francis of Assisi
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
– David Grayson
It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
– Charlie Sheen
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
– Emma Watson
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
– Margaret Thatcher
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
– Voltaire
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
– George Bernard Shaw
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
– Henry David Thoreau
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you wished to be loved, love.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
– Will Rogers
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
– Douglas Horton
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
– Stendhal
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
– Kristin Chenoweth
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
– Ellen DeGeneres
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
– Yakov Smirnoff
If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
– Mike Tyson
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
– James Herriot
If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
– Eva Gabor
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
– Sid Vicious
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
– Paulo Coelho
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
– Mike Tyson
I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
– Angelina Jolie
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
– Audrey Hepburn
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
– Freddy Fender
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
– Tallulah Bankhead
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
– J. D. Salinger
I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.
– Tori Amos
I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
– Julia Child
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
– Eminem
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
– Bill Cosby
I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
– Oliver Reed
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
– Pietro Aretino
I love you more than my own skin.
– Frida Kahlo
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
– John Keats
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
– Demetri Martin
I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
– Angelina Jolie
I love to hit people. I love to.
– Mike Tyson
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
– Eminem
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
– Jennifer Aniston
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
– Audrey Hepburn
I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
– Christopher Meloni
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
– Claude Chabrol
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
– Oliver Goldsmith
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
– Todd Barry
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
– Esai Morales
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
– Will Smith
I love a natural look in pictures.
– Marilyn Monroe
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
– Leslie Fiedler
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
– George Eliot
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
– Albert Camus
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
– Lucille Ball
I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
– Zac Efron
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
– Elizabeth I
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
– Nelson Mandela
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
– Zora Neale Hurston
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
– Edgar Winter
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
– Theodore Dreiser
I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.
– Mitt Romney
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
– Angelina Jolie
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
– Lucille Ball
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
– Henri Matisse
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
– Jose Rizal
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
– Bill Cosby
Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.
– Lil Wayne