Love Quotes

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E e cummings

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann von Goethe

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Pascal

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

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

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J. M. Barrie

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Arthur Baldwin

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.

Sir Thomas More

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell.

Thomas Dekke