Love Quotes

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

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

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

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Author Unknown

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Ukranian Prove

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

Victor Frankl

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

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

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

H. L. Mencken

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Don Byas

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Jonathan Swift

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

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

Beaumarchis

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)

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

French Prove

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

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

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

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove