Love Quotes

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.

Greek Prove

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E e cummings

To love another person is to help them love God.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

The wise man will love all others will desire.

Afranius

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.

E. M. Forste

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

August Strindberg

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

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

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

John Christian Bovee

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The world loves to be deceived.

Franck Sebastian

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6