Famous Quotes on Love

• Love cannot save you from your own fate. Jim Morrison

• Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash

• Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber

• If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France

• Love does not dominate it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The course of true love never did run smooth. Shakespeare, William

• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton

• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst

• Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young

• 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

• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore

• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm

• When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler

• Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball

• It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. Donald Trump

• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours. Charles Caleb Colton

• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule. Buddha

• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. Mae West

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke

• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong

• 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

• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover

• Whoso loves Believes the impossible. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Oliver Goldsmith

• Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis

• When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected. Orlando Bloom

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald

• If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. Jasmine Guy

• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia M. Child

• Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba

• If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie

• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw

• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury

• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare

• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Goncourt

• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi

• Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Khalil Gibran

• Love is blind. Geoffrey Chaucer

• We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford

• The woman cries before the wedding, the man after. Proverb

• And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job. Mitt Romney

• A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Wyatt, Woodrow

• Love is a hole in the heart. Ben Hecht

• You can't blame gravity for falling in love. Albert Einstein

• 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

• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac

• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. Bovee, Christian Nestell

• The one who loves least controls the relationship. Anon.

• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm

• It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain. Charlie Sheen

• I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher

• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel

• He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides

• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Benjamin Britten

• Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. Crisp, Quentin

• We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch

• 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

• I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James A. Baldwin

• I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar

• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz

• I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. Esai Morales

• A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. Marilyn Monroe

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. A. J. McLean

• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa

• Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Greg Anderson

• Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson

• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken

• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller

• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston

• Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche

• I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland

• You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Adams, Henry

• Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa

• Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game. Michael Jordan

• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde

• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. Lawrence Durrell

• You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. Paul Walker

• Love is a serious mental disease. Plato

• If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. Julia Roberts

• Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. Meir Kahane

• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen

• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare

• 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

• 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

• Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Byron, Lord

• Ultimately love is everything. M. Scott Peck

• A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Chuck D.

• I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

• If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox