1429 Quotes about Love Page 2

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. - Sherwood Anderson

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. - Bill Cosby

I am dancing in a bright beam of light . . . I am remembering love - unknown

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. - Celia Thaxter

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. - William Blake

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry. - John Donne

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. - Dr. Samuel Johnson

I am, in every thought of my heart, yours. - Woodrow Wilson

I argue thee that love is life And life hath immortality. - Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. - Emily Dickinson

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. - Oprah Winfrey

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. - Anacreon

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

I climbed up the door and opened the stairs, Said my pajamas and put on my prayers, Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light. All because you kissed me goodnight! ~Author Unknown

I could never love where I could not respect. - Charlotte Elizabeth Aiss?

I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love. - unknown

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it wastrue. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. - Mohandas Gandhi

I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that. - Robert Herrick

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices arethe enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love. - John Donne

I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. - Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I finish where I began: Jesus? statement ?Come and see? provides bothan invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; seeHim as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; recognize in Him the great Messiah who will come again with healing in His wings, to set His peoplefree. He will wrap you about in the cloak of His redeeming love, and your life will be changed forever. - Alexander B. Morrison

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to reallybe someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever,really. - Marilyn Monroe

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand. - Ella Fitzgerald

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony. - Gaius Valerius Catullus

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who ?appreciate? beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There?s no such thing. I never ?appreciate,? any more than I like. I love it or I hate. - Pablo Picasso

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Daphne Rae

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week. - George Gordon, Lord Byron

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - William Butler Yeats

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. - Emily Dickinson

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. - John Greenleaf Whittier

I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart, I but know that I love thee whatever thou art. - Charles Lamb

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. - Albert Camus

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! - Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. - Bob Dylan

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. - John Donne

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. - Margaret Thatcher

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle. - Mitch Hedberg

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

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright. - James Russell Lowell

I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. - Albert Camus

I love little children?and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us. - Charles Dickens

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. - Andy Warhol

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. - Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who do not know how to live for today. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. - Maya Angelou

I love you as New Englanders love pie! - Don Marquis

I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. ~Pixie Foudre

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. - Pietro Aretino

I love you, are three words with infinite meanings, but only one feeling. - Scrubby

I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for whatYou are making of me. I love you For the part of me That you bring out; I love you For putting your hand Into my heaped-up heart And passing over All the foolish, weak things That you can?t help Dimly seeing there, And for drawing out Into the light All the beautiful belongings That no one else had looked Quite far enough to find. I love you because you Are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But atemple; Out of the works Of my every day Not a reproach But a song. - Cecelia Reed

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun. - Charles Hanson Towne

I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember... dying. - Todd McFarlane

I saw and loved. - Edward Gibbon

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love ?Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis - Propertius Sextus

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. - Eminem

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. - Oscar Wilde

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Ayn Rand

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - Alfred Joyce Kilmer

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

I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was lovingpeople. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it. - Florence Allshorn

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, - While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair. - Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over.... I was either in love or I had smallpox. - Woody Allen

I wasn't kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth. - Chico Marx

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. - Anais Nin

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. - Muhammad Ali

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? - John Donne

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. - Andy Warhol

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate. - George Burns

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. - Bern Williams

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

If a thing loves, it is infinite. - William Blake

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too aremutable, but in Him they are firmly established. - Saint Augustine of Hippo

If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated withlove, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well. - Nellie Curtiss

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being. - Anzia Yezierska

If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. - Lynda Barry

If love is a drop, I'll send you shower; If love is a petal, I'll send you flower; if love is water, I'll send you the sea; if love is a person, I'll send you me. - Heer

If love is music in its purest form, then you are the notes on the page and the melody in my heart. - Les Harris

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? - Lily Tomlin

If loving u is a mistake, then I'm willing to do it over and over again. - Ray Lim

If men and nations did reach up to God with all their hearts, war would cease. If love of God were in the heart of man, a man would have no desire to destroy his brother. There would be no dishonesty if the love of God were in the heart. If God came first in his life, a man would love his neighbor as himself, and instead of taking from him, he would feel to give. - Rex C. Reeve, Sr.

If music be the food of love, play on. - William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, then play on - unknown

If my love for you were roses, you'd walk forever in a garden of red. - Straif

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. - Katherine Mansfield

If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it - Brian Fox

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. - Leo Tolstoy

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. - John Lennon

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. - Lao Tzu

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiouslyrudimentary level?indeed in the molecule itself ? it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized'' form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments ofthe world seek each other so that the world may come into being. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If thou wishest to be loved, love. - Lucius Annius Seneca

If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. Wecan make our choices built from love or from fear. - Dr. Elizabeth K?bler-Ross

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. - unknown

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. - Christopher Darlington Morley

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. - Maya Angelou

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. - Ronald Reagan

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works. - Louise L. Hay

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. - unknown

If you deny childhood, you deny life. They can?t speak up for themselves so we must. It?s like, how do we define love, it?s a very, very deep feeling, but it?s I think the most important force of life. - unknown

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. - Robert Anson Heinlein

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? - unknown

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. - Maya Angelou

If you have respect and consideration for one another, you?ll make it. - Mary Durso

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

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 love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. - Bruce Lee

If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be. - unknown

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 a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa

If you want something very, very badly, Let it go free. If it comes back to you, It?s yours forever. If it doesn?t, it was never yours to begin with. - unknown

If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. - Will Rogers

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. - Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. - John Lennon

I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. - Jaesse Tyler

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm

In a false quarrel there is no true valour. - William Shakespeare

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. - Elizabeth Ashley

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Jenos Arany

In love of home, the love of country has its rise. - Charles Dickens

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

In love there are things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. - unknown

In my garden, love grows. - unknown

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read. - William Shakespeare

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. - Margaret Anderson

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin

In the midst of anger, jealousy, self-pity, a negative thought, or emotion, say: 'I love myself in this moment, just as I am'. - Cecilia Bartholomew

In the race for love, I was scratched. - Joan Davie

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. - Mother Teresa

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nora thief purloin? O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing. - Sara TEASDALE

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? - Igor Stravinsky

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. - Mohandas Gandhi

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? - Thomas Wolfe

Is that what she thinks? Not realizing that alienation and patronization are slow torture? You find yourself listing to NIN, or something equally clich?. . . but you can't help it . . . the pain staysfor a while (it seems like forever). You want to lash back but how canyou when you love that person. Why can't they remember all those wonderful moments that you do? So you lock your heart in brimstone, never to be touched again. - unknown

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. - Samuel Butler, the younger

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

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. - Douglas Jerrold

It is a lot easier to prove that you don?t love someone than it is toprove that you do, but one of the best ?proofs? I know is the desire todevote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return. - Marilyn vos Savant

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist. - Marquise Magdeleine de Sable

It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. - Jean Baptiste Moliere

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. - William Carlos Williams

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all. - Samuel Butler, the younger

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won. - unknown

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. - George Macdonald

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 difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem - Gaius Valerius Catullus

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. - Jimmy Carter

It is impossible to love and be wise. - Sir Francis Bacon

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love - unknown

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrathof God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up againstit: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging oppositionto sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is notevil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love. - Reginald John Campbell

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. - Voltaire

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. - Margaret Thatcher

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. - Miguel de Unamuno

It is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. - Frederick W. Thomas

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. - Henry David Thoreau

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bov?e

It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven." - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. - William Somerset Maugham

It?s an extra dividend when you like the girl you?re in love with. - Clark Gable

It?s delightful, it?s delicious, it?s de-lovely. - Cole Porter

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love ? they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds. - Louise Erickson

It's easy to halve the potato where there?s love. - unknown

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. - Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. - Jimi Hendrix

It's not found in a book, or even in a movie, if you open your eyes and open your arms you will find me in front of you. Love is bliss, and what makes it even better is that true love ends with a life long friendship. - Melissa Mcclellan

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. - unknown