Love Quotes

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

To love another person is to help them love God.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous, Greensleeves

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

To love someone is to identify with them.

Aristotle

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

Johann von Goethe

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Winston Churchill

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Theresa

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

W. H. Murray

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

H. L. Mencken

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Francis Behan

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C. S. Lewis

There is no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

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

Mother Teresa