Quotes on love
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Hurston, Zora Neale
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
Hemingway, Ernest
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
Author, Unknown
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Shaw, George Bernard
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Atwood, Margaret
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Author, Unknown
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
Santayana, George
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
More, Sir Thomas
I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Author, Unknown
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
Donne, John
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Tolstoy, Leo
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Winsolow, Thyra Smater
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Allen, Woody
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
Allen, Woody
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
McLaughlin, Mignon
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Shakespeare, William
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Chevalier, Maurice
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you.
Unknown, Author
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
T, Ice
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
deFleur, Emma Racine
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
Hate punishes love.
Yeux-verdi, Abbe
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Simpson, Lisa
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
Aerosmith
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Morgan, Charles
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
Calverton, V.F.
Love floods us with hope.
Teague, Jareb
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
Moore, Hannah
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Whitman, Walt
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
Gay, John
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Fromm, Eric
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Watterson, Bill
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Author, Unknown
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Anouilh, Jean
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Love is metaphysical gravity.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Allen, Woody
Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
Timrod, Henry
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Hecht, Ben
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Bailey, Pearl
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Nathan, George Jean
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Lee, Bruce
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
Unknown, Author
Loving is never a waste of time.
Alauda, Astrid
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Tzu, Lao
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Bulwer, John
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that - that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make - and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
Bush, George W.
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
Herbert, George
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.
Unknown, Author
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Brown, Charlie
There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
deFleur, Emma Racine
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Author, Unknown
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Farmer, Hoosier
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Valois, Marguerite de
When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.
Arch, Jeff
Love is the poetry of the senses.
de Balzac, Honore
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Keats, John
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.
LeGuin, Ursula K.
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Cella, Rob
The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
Salinger, J. D.
