Famous Love Quotes - Page 2
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates
the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only
vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a
mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I
apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I
will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does
not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival.
C. S. Lewis
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple,
is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a
second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the
suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young
enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds.
And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less
than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no
matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When
you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to
you.
Lao Tzu
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to
live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,
for a second time in the history of the world, man will have
discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you
have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their
presence.
David Byrne
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement
of the Gods.
Plato
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of
order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're
yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to
be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any
reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something
other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the
exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new
freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his
future in life.
Plato
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men,
but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal
hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be
done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your
way.
C. S. Lewis
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 a serious mental disease.
Plato
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist
them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let
things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure
the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your
door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make
it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't
get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is
finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I
am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply
recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you
can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all
that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches
sacred.
Barbara de Angelis
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same
direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
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
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life
should be made.
Darren L. Johnson
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 is when you meet someone who tells you something new about
yourself.
Andre Breton
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one
man.
Tammy Wynette
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something
warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of
antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and
both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being
loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to
love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come
from.
Werner Erhard
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments
when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done
things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to
me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can
hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest
human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side
by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between
them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole
against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been
loved.
William Congreve
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
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
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at
all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a
candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already
three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is
to live forever.
Henry Drummond
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the
sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand
Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates
the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only
vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a
mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I
apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I
will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does
not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival.
C. S. Lewis
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple,
is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a
second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the
suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young
enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds.
And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less
than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no
matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When
you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to
you.
Lao Tzu
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to
live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,
for a second time in the history of the world, man will have
discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you
have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their
presence.
David Byrne
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement
of the Gods.
Plato
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of
order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're
yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to
be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any
reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something
other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the
exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new
freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his
future in life.
Plato
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men,
but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal
hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be
done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your
way.
C. S. Lewis
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 a serious mental disease.
Plato
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist
them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let
things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure
the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your
door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make
it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't
get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is
finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I
am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply
recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you
can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all
that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches
sacred.
Barbara de Angelis
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same
direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
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
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life
should be made.
Darren L. Johnson
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 is when you meet someone who tells you something new about
yourself.
Andre Breton
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one
man.
Tammy Wynette
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something
warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of
antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and
both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being
loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to
love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come
from.
Werner Erhard
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments
when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done
things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to
me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can
hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest
human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side
by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between
them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole
against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been
loved.
William Congreve
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
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
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at
all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a
candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already
three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is
to live forever.
Henry Drummond
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the
sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand
