Quotes about love

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

— Leo Buscaglia

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

— Leo Buscaglia

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

— Leo Buscaglia

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

— Leo Buscaglia

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

— Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

— Samuel Butler

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

— Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

— Lord Byron

Who loves, raves.

— Lord Byron

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

— Italo Calvino

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

— Albert Camus

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

— Truman Capote

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

— Thomas Carlyle

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

— Amy Carmichael

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

— Pat Carroll

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

— Catullus

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

— David Chambless

True love is the parent of humility.

— William Ellery Channing

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Love is blind.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

— Maurice Chevalier

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

— Lydia M. Child

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

— Williams Childs

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

— Mary Cholmondeley

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

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

— Melanie Clark

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

— Charles Caleb Colton

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

— Confucius

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

— Confucius

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

— William Congreve

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

— Cyril Connolly

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

— Pierre Corneille

Love is a friendship set to music.

— E. Joseph Cossman

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

— Stephen R. Covey

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

— Joan Crawford

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

— Richard Crawshaw

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

— Quentin Crisp

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

— Roy Croft

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

— Aleister Crowley

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

— Fr. Jerome Cummings

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

— Frank Dane

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

— Robertson Davies

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

— Alexis Delp

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

— Yogi Desai

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

— Thomas Robert Dewar

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

— Princess of Wales Diana

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

— Princess of Wales Diana

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

— Princess of Wales Diana

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

— Princess of Wales Diana

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

— Princess of Wales Diana

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

— Princess of Wales Diana

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

— Charles Dickens

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

— Emily Dickinson

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

— Baba Dioum

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

— Walt Disney

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

— John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

— John Donne

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

— John Donne

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

— Mark Van Doren

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

— Lord Drewar

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

— Henry Drummond

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

— Henry Drummond

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

— Henry Drummond

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

— John Dryden

Love is love's reward.

— John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

— John Dryden

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

— Du Coeur

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

— Maureen Duffy

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

— Isadora Duncan

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

— Marguerite Duras

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

— Marguerite Duras

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

— Lawrence Durrell

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

— Lawrence Durrell

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

— Andrea Dworkin

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

— Wayne Dyer

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

— Wayne Dyer

Love is a better teacher than duty.

— Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

— Albert Einstein

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

— Albert Einstein

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

— George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

— George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

— George Eliot

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

— T. S. Eliot

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

— Ben Elton

All mankind loves a lover.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson