Love Quotes

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton John Sheen

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

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

H. L. Mencken

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Richard Dehmel

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

There is no wisdom without love.

N. Sri Ram

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.

Shriekback, "Cradle Song".

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E e cummings

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Ukranian Prove

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

Where there is love, there is pain.

Danish prove

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

N. P. Willis

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

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is like pi - Natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

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

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert