Love Quotes

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

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

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Jane Austen, Emma

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

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

Mark Twain

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Him that I love, I wish to be free - - Even from me.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

Courtly love - Poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

James Burke

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

Mother Teresa, Robin Williams

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

In love, one and one are one.

Jean - Paul Sartre

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill