Quotes about love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

— Carl Jung

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

— Alphonse Karr

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

— Thomas Kempis

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

— Thomas Kempis

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

— Thomas Kempis

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

— Thomas Kempis

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

— Thomas Kempis

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

— Sister Corita Kent

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

— Kahlil Gibran

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

— Jean De La Bruyere

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

— R. D. Laing

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

— William Law

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

— William Law

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

— D. H. Lawrence

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

— D. H. Lawrence

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

— D. H. Lawrence

I shall always be a priest of love.

— D. H. Lawrence

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

— Irving Layton

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

— Christopher Leach

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

— John Lennon

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

— John Lennon

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

— Doris Lessing

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

— Michael Leunig

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

— Stephen Levine

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

— Stephen Levine

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

— Sinclair Lewis

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

— Harold Lokes

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 a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

— St. Macarius of Egypt

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

— Anna Magnani

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

— Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

— Sir Thomas Malory

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

— Og Mandino

Do all things with love.

— Og Mandino

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

— Katherine Mansfield

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

— Michael Garrett Marino

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

— Christopher Marlowe

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

— Harriet Martineau

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

— Guy de Maupassant

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

Love is all you need.

— Paul Mccartney

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

— George Mcdonald

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

— H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

— H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

— H. L. Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

— H. L. Mencken

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

— Karl A. Menninger

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

— Karl A. Menninger

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

— George Meredith

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

— John N. Mitchell

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

— Stan Mooneyham

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

— George Moore

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

— Hannah More

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

— Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

— Mother Teresa

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 have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

— Mother Teresa

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

— Mother Teresa

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

— Iris Murdoch

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

— George Jean Nathan

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

— Madame Neckar

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

— Anais Nin

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

— Northern Exposure

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

— Ann Oakley

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

— Baroness Orczy

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

— George Orwell

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

— Samuel Osgood

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

— Mark Overby

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

— Ovid

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

— John Oxenham

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

— Dorothy Parker

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

— Blaise Pascal

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

— Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions.

— Cesare Pavese

Speak low if you speak love.

— Don Pedro

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

— Charles Peguy