Love Quotes

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berge

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

N. P. Willis

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Don Barthelme

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

La Rochefoucauld

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Unknown

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Mohammed

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dagobert D. Runes

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004