Quotes about: love

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
– Guy Debord
I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen.
– Sandra Dee
Love builds bridges where there are none.
– R. H. Delaney
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
Most of them lead lives of unquiet desperation, continually seeking, in sex they wish was love and in the love they suspect is only sex, a center for their worlds to turn on.
– David Dempsey
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
– Catherine Deneuve
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither good or bad, and who knows neither love nor hatred.
– Savitri Devi
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
– Lord Thomas Dewar
Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.
– Rosaleen Dickson
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
– Baba Dioum
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.
– Michael Dorris
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
– Larry Dossey
I am the Love that dare not speak its name.
– Lord Alfred Douglas
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It's a perpetual wound.
– Maureen Duffy
A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth.
– Martha Duffy
All love is lost but upon God alone.
– William Dunbar
I'd love to be a procrastinator, but I never seem to get around to it.
– Chris Dundee
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
– Elaine Dundy
I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know.
– Eliza Dushku
And love is love in beggars and in kings.
– Sir Edward Dyer
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
– White Eagle
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
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
– George Eastman
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
– Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
– Meister Eckhart
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
– Umberto Eco
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
– Mary Baker Eddy
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
– King Edward VIII
The falling out of faithful frends is the reunyng of love.
– Richard Edwards
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
– Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
– Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
– Paul Eldridge
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
– Carmen Electra
I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.
– Carmen Electra
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
– George Eliot
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
– George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
– George Eliot
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
– George Eliot
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
– George Eliot
This love is silent.
– T. S. Eliot
Grief is the price we pay for love.
– Elizabeth II
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
– Kim Elizabeth
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
– Duke Ellington
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
– Albert Ellis
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
– Henry Ellis
All mankind love a lover.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the unvisionary language of farm, city and love.
– Paul Engle
So what becomes of you my love when they have finally stripped you of the handbags and the glad rags that your Granddad had to sweat so you could buy.
– Jon English
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
– Louise Erdrich
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
– Louise Erdrich
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
– M. C. Escher
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
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
– Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
– Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
– Euripides
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first strike.
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
– Nelson Eddy
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
– Maria Edgeworth
Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.
– Jenna Elfman
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
– Harlan Ellison
I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.
– Jennifer Ellison
If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
– Jennifer Ellison
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time, through strife's hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
– Empedocles
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
– Yunus Emre
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
– Werner Erhard
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
– Erik Erikson
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
– Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Love is never wrong.
– Melissa Etheridge
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
– Euripedes
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
– Dale Evans
I would love to be an evangelist, but I think God has revealed to me that I can serve him best by just remaining at my post.
– Dale Evans
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
– Dakota Fanning
My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
– Dakota Fanning
Thank you so much for including me in this year's It List. I couldn't believe it when I found out! I was so excited. Thank you for inviting me to the It List party in New York. I wanted to come so bad, but I was filming in Mexico City. I love reading ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY!
– Dakota Fanning
The lesson that I hope everyone will learn when they see the movie is that it doesn't matter what car you drive and what apartment or house you live in, or even what you look like on the outside.It just matters what your heart looks like. [It's about] your ability to love.
– Dakota Fanning
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
– Frances Farmer
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
– George Farquhar
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
– William Faulkner
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
– William Faulkner
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.
– Dianne Feinstein
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
– Edna Ferber
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
– Marilyn Ferguson
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with Lost in Translation and Rushmore. I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.
– Will Ferrell
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
– Henry Fielding
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
– Henry Fielding
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
– Calista Flockhart
Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
– Jane Fonda
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
– Jean de La Fontaine