Quotations of Love
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
--Thoreau
"Intimacy is spelled H-O-N-E-S-T-Y."
--author unknown
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
--Rupert Brooke
A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.
--Maupassant
Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and fearful thing!
--George Gordon Lord Byron
All mankind love a lover.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart that loves is always young
--Greek Proverb
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last
-- Remy de Gourmont
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there is no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
--Jules Renard (1864-1910)
To write a love letter we must begin without knowing what we intend to say, and end without knowing what we have written.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Kisses Kept Are Wasted Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so.
--Cooke
Love is a great beautifier.
--Louisa May Alcott
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
--RichardBach
Lo! All the elements of love are here -
The burning blush, the smile, the sigh, the tear.
-- Bailey
It is impossible to love and be wise.
-- Francis Bacon
Love - a find, a fire, a heaven, a hell,
Where pleasure, pain and sad repentance do dwell.
-- Richard Barnfield
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Amelia Barr
I have you
A lover and a friend
You are everything I need
You are the sun, the air I breathe.
Without you
Life wouldn't be the same
Please never go away
And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you
--Basia
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Pierre A de Beaumarchais
Young love is a flame; very pretty,often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
-- R H Benson
Love is the crocodile on the river of desire
--Bhartrihari
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
--Bible Song of Solomon VIII,7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails
--Bible I Corinthians 13:4-8
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
--Robert Bridges
I can't believe I've lived this long without having your love," she whispered weakly. "You have had it. I've always loved you," he said quietly, threading his fingers through her hair to press her head against his heart. "I just never knew your name."
--Sandra Brown
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
--Robert Browning
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
Yes love indeed is light from heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire,
With Angels shar'd, by Allah given,
To lift from earth our low desire.
--Lord Byron
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,--
His eyes are in his mind
What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is a spaniel that prefers even punishment from one hand to the caresses of another.
--Colton
To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
--Quentin Crisp
When you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone,you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible.
--Billy Crystal as Harry in When Harry Met Sally
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
--Thomas Dekker
I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry.
--John Donne
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
--John Dryden
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein
For what is love itself, for the one we love best?-an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
--George Eliot
All mankind love a lover.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem...It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
--Emmet Fox
Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we love.
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm
As soon as you cannot keep anything from a woman, you love her.
--Paul Geraldy
Love is trembling happiness
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst--
Kahlil Gibran
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary,to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
--Andre Gide
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.
--Edmond de and Jules de Goncourt
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
--Thomas Hardy
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.--
Josiah G. Holland
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.--
Victor Hugo
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise--
Samuel Johnson
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
--Ellen Key
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
--Soren Kierkegaard
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.
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future,and it does not brood over the past. It’s the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals.
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
--Thomas Mann
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
--Christopher Marlowe
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
Love is like war: easy to begin but hard to stop.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anaesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
--H L Mencken
If you are the desert, I'll be the sea
If you ever hunger, hunger for me
Whatever you ask for, that's what I'll be.
So when you remember the ones who have lied
Who said that they cared, but then laughed as you cried
Beautiful darling..don't think of me
Because all I ever wanted, its in your eyes.
--George Michael
No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.
But there 's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
--Thomas Moore
Love is the idler's occupation
The warrior's relaxation
And the sovereign's ruination
--Napoleon
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
--Joyce Carol Oates
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us,loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.--
Baroness Orczy
Love is a kind of warfare.
--OVID
The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand.
--Blaise Pascal
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
--Plato
Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart.
--Marcel Proust
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dreamworld into reality
--Theodore Reik
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.--
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits.--
Frederick W.Robertson
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Women in love pardon great indiscretions more easily than little infidelities
The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one.
Love like fire cannot survive without continual movement and ceases to be as soon as it ceases to hope or fear.
The pleasure of love is loving, and we get more happiness from the passion we feel than the passion we inspire.
-- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. --George Sand
When I need you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you,
and all that I so want to give you, it's only a heartbeat away.
When I need love, I hold out my hands and I touch love,
I never knew there was so much love, keeping me warm night and day.
--Leo Sayer
True love 's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes soon as granted fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
--Sir Walter Scott
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
--Segur
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love
Love sees with the heart and not the mind; therefore, winged cupid is painted blind.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
When little fears grow great, great love grows there.
--William Shakespeare
All's fair in love and war.
--Francis Edward Smedley
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
--Sophocles
They sin who tell us love can die;
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity.
Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest-time of love is there.
--Robert Southey
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
--Josiah G. Holland
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
The first duty of love - is to listen
--Paul Tillich
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.
--Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
--Peter Ustinov
There is no greater glory than love,
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
--Lope de Vega
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination
--Voltaire
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
--Sir Hugh Walpole
It has ever been since time began,
And ever will be, till time lose breath,
That love is a mood-no more-to man,
And love to a woman is life or death.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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