Love Quotes
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
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
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.Eudora Welty
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
Do what you love and the business will follow.Michel Fortin
Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.E. M. Forste
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.Friedrich Nietzsche
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.Robert Herrick
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.Delmore Schwartz
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.Matt Groening
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.Israel Zangwill
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.Houssaye
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.Robert Frost
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.Marc Maihueird
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.Henri De Regnie
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.Nancy Mitford
If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
The absence of love is the most abject pain.Herr Lipp
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.Robert Burton
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.Gore Vidal
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
God is love, but get it in writing.Gypsy Rose Lee
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.Nan Fairbrothe
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)
