Love Quotes

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
– Marlene Dietrich
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
– Walt Disney
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
– John Donne
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
– Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
– Henry Drummond
Love is love's reward.
– John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
– John Dryden
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
– Lawrence Durrell
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
– Wayne Dyer
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
– Bob Dylan
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
– Don Juan DeMarco
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
– Catherine Deneuve
All love is lost but upon God alone.
– William Dunbar
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
– Amelia Earhart
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
– George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
– George Eliot
This love is silent.
– T. S. Eliot
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
– Duke Ellington
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
– Albert Ellis
All mankind love a lover.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
– Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
– Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
– Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
– Werner Erhard
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
– Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
– Jean de La Fontaine
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
– Emmet Fox
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
– Anatole France
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
– Brendan Francis
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
– Anne Frank
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
– Benjamin Franklin
One is very crazy when in love.
– Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
– Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
– Sigmund Freud
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
– Erich Fromm
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
– Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
– Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
– Erich Fromm
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
– Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
– Erich Fromm
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
– Robert Frost
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 Fulghum
Love is metaphysical gravity.
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
– Ella Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
– Zelda Fitzgerald
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
– Larry Flynt
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
– Mahatma Gandhi
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
– Judy Garland
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
– Judy Garland
People everywhere love Windows.
– Bill Gates
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
– John Gay
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
– Kahlil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
– Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
– Kahlil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love can do much, but duty more.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
– Emma Goldman
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
– James Graham
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
– Eva Gabor
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
– Louis Gerstner
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
– Cathy Guisewite
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
– Oscar Hammerstein II
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
– Sydney J. Harris
With our love, we could save the world.
– George Harrison
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
– Helen Hayes
Love is a hole in the heart.
– Ben Hecht
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
– Ben Hecht
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
– Robert A. Heinlein
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
– Robert A. Heinlein
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
– Ernest Hemingway
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
– Ernest Hemingway
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
– Jimi Hendrix
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
– Katharine Hepburn
Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
– Katharine Hepburn
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
– Audrey Hepburn
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
– Eric Hoffer
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
– Billie Holiday