Love Quotes

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 

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 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 

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 

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

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 

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. 

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. 
Frank Howard Clark 

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 

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 

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.