Love Quotes

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

La Rochefoucald

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

William Shakespeare

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stephenson

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitie

The road to true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

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

Dagobert D. Runes

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction.

T. Clay Sanders

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridges

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Prove

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck