Love Quotes

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cathe

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Anthony de Mello

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.

W. Somerset Maugham

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Louise Erdrich

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beeche

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Francois Sagan

God is love, but get it in writing.

Gypsy Rose Lee

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon