Love
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark
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.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
The Holy Bible
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Tell me who admires and loves you,
And I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
Goethe
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Richard Bach
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.
Molleen Matsumura
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
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
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
M. Scott Peck
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Javan
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Love is love’s reward.
John Dryden
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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 is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John Lennon
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.
Erich Segal