Love Quotes

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
– Billie Holiday
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
– Bob Hope
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
– Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
– Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
– Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
– Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
– Victor Hugo
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
– Zora Neale Hurston
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
– Aldous Huxley
When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.
– Helen Hunt Jackson
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
– Lorraine Hansberry
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
– Louise L. Hay
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
– Anthony Hopkins
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
– Billy Idol
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
– Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
– Washington Irving
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
– Helen Keller
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
– Helen Keller
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
– Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
– Helen Keller
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
– Ken Kesey
Don't forget to love yourself.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
– Milan Kundera
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
– The Dalai Lama
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
– Alphonse de Lamartine
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
– Ann Landers
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
– Ann Landers
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
– Bruce Lee
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
– John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
– John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
– John Lennon
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
– C. S. Lewis
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
– Samuel Lover
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
– Haniel Long
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
– Shirley MacLaine
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
– Og Mandino
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
– Marilyn Manson
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
– Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
– Christopher Marlowe
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
– Christopher Marlowe
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
– W. Somerset Maugham
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
– W. Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
– W. Somerset Maugham
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
– Paul McCartney
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
– Bryant H. McGill
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
– Bryant H. McGill
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
– Margaret Mead
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
– Bernard Meltzer
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
– H. L. Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
– H. L. Mencken
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
– H. L. Mencken
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
– H. L. Mencken
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
– Thomas Merton
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
– A. A. Milne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
– Michel de Montaigne
True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
– Ricardo Montalban
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
– Dwight L. Moody
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
– Charles Morgan
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.
– Jim Morrison
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
– Jim Morrison
One must not trifle with love.
– Alfred de Musset
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
– Alanis Morissette
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
– Mary Manin Morrissey
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
– George Jean Nathan
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
– George Jean Nathan
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
– Kent Nerburn
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
– Anais Nin
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
– Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
– Anais Nin
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
– Joyce Carol Oates
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
– Jamie Oliver
Fortune and love favor the brave.
– Ovid
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
– Ovid
Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.
– Bette Page