Quotes about love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

— Marie E. Eschenbach

We always come back to our first love.

— Etienne

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

— Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

— Euripides

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

— Irwin Federman

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

— Brian Ferry

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

— Edward Flaherty

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

— Edward M. Forster

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

— Emmet Fox

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

— Emmet Fox

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

— St. Francis of Assisi

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

— Benjamin Franklin

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

— Marilyn French

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

— Sigmund Freud

One is very crazy when in love.

— Sigmund Freud

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

— Sigmund Freud

Love, while you are able to love.

— A. Frieligrath

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

— Erich Fromm

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

— Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

— Erich Fromm

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

— Margaret Fuller

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

— John Gay

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

— Kahlil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

— Kahlil Gibran

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

— Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

— Kahlil Gibran

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

— Louis Ginsberg

We love because it's the only true adventure.

— Nikki Giovanni

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The best way to know God is to love many things.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

— Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

— Rabbi J. Gordon

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

— Baltasar Gracian

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

— Billy Graham

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

— Germaine Greer

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 a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

— Matt Groening

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

— Arlo Guthrie

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

— David B. Haight

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

— Novalis Hardenberg

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

— John Harrigan

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

— Louise L. Hay

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

— Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

— Helen Hayes

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

— William Hazlitt

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

— Shirley Hazzard

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

— George Hebert

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

— Robert Heinlein

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

— Ernest Hemingway

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

— Katharine Hepburn

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

— Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

— Nick Hertl

Love is stronger than violence.

— Hermann Hesse

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

— Mangnu Hirschfield

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

— Mangnu Hirschfield

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

— Lisa Hoffman

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

— Horace

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

— Doug Horton

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

— Doug Horton

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

— Edgar Watson Howe

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

— Elbert Hubbard

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

— Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

— Elbert Hubbard

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

— Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

— Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

— Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

— Victor Hugo

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

— Bengali Hymn

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

— Washington Irving

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

— St. Jerome

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

— Juan Ramon Jiminez

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

— St. John of the Cross

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

— St. John of the Cross

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

— Samuel Johnson

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

— Franklin P. Jones

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

— Erica Jong

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

— James Joyce

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

— Curtis Judalet