Quotes about: love

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
– B. R. Hayden
We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.
– Anne Heche
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
– Ernest Hello
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
– Claud-Adrian Helvetius
I was either standing in your shadow, or blocking your light; Though I kept on trying I could not get it right; For you, girl There's just not enough love in the world.
– Don Henley
All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
– Philip Henry
Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification.
– Carl Henry
I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several times at situation comedy and drama, just as in 1986 I decided to lay the sketches off for a bit to concentrate on situation comedy and drama. I am NOT giving up comedy. I love doing stand-up comedy and characters.
– Lenny Henry
I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.
– Shuler Hensley
I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.
– Shuler Hensley
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.
– Eva Herzigova
Every human longs for peace and love.
– Hiawatha
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
– Hiawatha
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.
– Lisa Hoffman
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
– Alice Hoffman
I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.
– Hulk Hogan
For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.
– Rupert Holmes
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
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
– Houssaye
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
– Gordie Howe
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
– Cheri Huber
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
– Glenn Hughes
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
– Harold S. Hulbert
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
– Morton Hunt
Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
– Morton Hunt
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
– Billy Idol
I wanted to record 'Mony Mony' because it was the first record I ever made love to.
– Billy Idol
Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.
– Julio Iglesias
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
– Daisaku Ikeda
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Patriotism - is defined as love and devotion to one's country. But, oftentimes, it takes as much, if not more courage to speak out against our government. It is that love of country that compel some to speak out and oppose our government's actions.
– Daniel Inouye
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
– Tony Iommi
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.
– Mary Jean Iron
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
– John Irving
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
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
– Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
– Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
– Washington Irving
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
– Washington Irving
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
– Christopher Isherwood
It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
– Allen Iverson
Going on the radio is like talking to a nice girl you know; you think of perfect things to say and things to talk about but you can't premeditate love or the media.
– Alex James
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
– Gerald Jampolsky
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
– Leos Janacek
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word queer is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
– Derek Jarman
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
– Ferguson Jenkins
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
– Douglas William Jerrold
We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
– Douglas William Jerrold
The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.
– Brian Jett
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
– Scarlett Johansson
The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.
– Harry G. Johnson
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
– Boris Johnson
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, a circle of creation is completed inside us. The doors of our soul open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
– Anne Jones
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
– Franz Kafka
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
– Louis Kahn
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
– Garson Kanin
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
– Donna Karan
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
– Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
– Alphonse Karr
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
– John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
– John Keats
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
– John Keats
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
– John Keats
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
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
– Thomas a Kempis
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
– Jackie Kennedy
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
– Jackie Kennedy
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
– Jackie Kennedy
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
– Jackie Kennedy
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
– Rose Kennedy
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
– Rose Kennedy
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
– Jean Kerr
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
– Ken Kesey
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
– Ellen Key
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
– John Maynard Keynes
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
– Nicole Kidman
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
I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
– Lil' Kim
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
– Alan King
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
– 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.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
America is the greatest country in the world-I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.
– Don King
I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.
– Carole King