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Love
- A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
- A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Woodrow Wyatt
- A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit.
- Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. ~ Syrus Publilius
- An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. ~ John Wesley
- And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. ~ The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
- And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. ~ Professor Marvel, Wizard of Oz
- And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. ~ Khalil Gibran
- As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ~ Aphorism
- At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
- How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends? ~ L. A. Story
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa
- I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. ~ John Nash , in A Beautiful Mind
- If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. ~ Osho
- If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. ~ Doug Horton
- If you love the children of others, you will love your own even better. ~ Anonymous
- It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier
- It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ~ Thomas Mann
- It is not whether the person is perfect, nobody is, it is if the person is perfect for you that you must figure out. ~ Good Will Hunting
- It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ~ Richard Braunstein
- Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy— in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ~ The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
- Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. ~ John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion
- Love — a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker ~ Anonymous
- Love demands all, and has a right to all. ~ Beethoven
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~ Goethe
- Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin Jones
- Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. ~ Goethe
- Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. ~ Mother Teresa
- Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa
- Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast. ~ Mark Twain
- Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ~ Matt Groening
- Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet. ~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ~ Matt Groening
- Love is an art like music. ~ Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
- Love is annihilation. ~ Sting
- Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers and the road. ~ Franz Kafka
- Love is a word, what matters is the connection that word implies ~ Matrix Revolutions
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith
- 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
- Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. ~ T.S. Eliot
- Love is much like a wild rose; beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark A. Overby
- Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken. ~ William Shakespeare
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. ~ C.S. Lewis
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
- Alternate version; Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own.
- Love is the only rational act. ~ Stephen Levine
- Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. ~ Johnny Rotten
- Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday. ~ Noelle, Age 7 (participant in a survey of 4-8 year olds asked to define love)
- Love itself is a belief. ~ Ray H Wall
- Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. ~ Edwin Robinson
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. ~ Mark Twain
- Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. ~ William Shakespeare
- Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus , 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 (New King James Version)
- In the following more extensive quotation of this passage from the original King James Version of the Christian Holy Bible, the word Charity is used as a translation of the Latin Caritas, and the original Greek Agape, which were words for Love, and used to denote the highest and most self-transcending forms of Love.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ~ I Corinthians Chapter 13
- Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. ~ Carl Sandburg
- Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. ~ Song of Songs 8:7
- May you love as long as you live and live as long as you love. ~ Robert Heinlein
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
- My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment— upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. ~ John Keats (Letters to Fanny)
- Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
- Translation: Love conquers all; and let us submit to love. ~ Virgil
- Once a tear fell off my cheek and into the ocean, the day I find it will be the day I stop loving you. - Anonymous
- One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him. ~ Anonymous
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. ~ Sophocles
- Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ~ Alexandre Dumas
- Raising a child is the highest form of love a human being can experience. ~ Marsha Rock
- Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. ~ Anita Brookner
- Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~ Anthony Powell
- So long as a man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. ~ Anon
- Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. ~ Houssaye
- Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twines
Tell me why the sky's so blue
And I will tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine
Phototropism makes ivy twine
Rayleigh scattering makes sky so blue
Sexual hormones are why I love you. ~ Fortune file
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Eden Ahbez
- The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing. ~ Pascal
- The laws of love are written in the heart of every human being by the hand of God. ~ Anonymous
- The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ~ Vincent van Gogh
- The more you judge, the less you love. ~ Honore de Balzac
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin
- The success of love is in the loving— it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done." ~ Mother Teresa
- The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness. ~ Kabir
- There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love. ~ Lytton Strachey to Carrington , 23.3.1917
- There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding than seeing two people you love loving each other. ~ J.H. Li
- This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. ~ Gerald Massey
- To be loved, be lovable. ~ Ovid
- To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (from Love in the Time of Cholera)
- To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
- To love another person is to see the face of God. ~ Victor Hugo
- True love always involves a choice ~ Ray H Wall
- True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose ~ Ray H Wall
- True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross. ~ Ray H Wall
- True love is the Devil's crowbar ~ X
- True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on. ~ Mark Twain
- Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. ~ William Phelps
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~ Goethe
- We must love one another or die. ~ W.H. Auden
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~ Tom Robbins
- When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love. ~ St. John of the Cross
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix
- When two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. ~ I Ching
- When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ~ Mark Twain
- Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
- With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ~ Daisaku Ikeda
- You don't get to choose. You just fall. ~ Anon
- You are what you love, not what loves you ~ Adaptation (movie)
- 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
- Love is one song sung by two. ~ Garfield
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