Quotes about love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

— Sydney Joseph Perelman

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

— Francesco Petrarch

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

— Peace Pilgrim

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

— Peace Pilgrim

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

— Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

— Plato

Love expands.

— Hugh Prather

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

— Matthew Prior

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

— Marcel Proust

Love laughs at locksmiths.

— Proverb

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

— Proverb

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

— Proverb

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

— Proverb

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

— English Proverb

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

— French Proverb

A heart that loves is always young.

— Greek Proverb

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

— Irish Proverb

He who is not impatient is not in love.

— Italian Proverb

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

— Japanese Proverb

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

— Japanese Proverb

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

— Jewish Proverb

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

— Spanish Proverb

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

— Ayn Rand

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

— Ronald Reagan

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

— Theodor Reik

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

— Theodor Reik

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

— Jules Renard

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

— Mary Roberts Rhinehart

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

— Adrienne Rich

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

— Nick Richardson

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

— Jean Paul Richter

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

— Tom Robbins

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

— Theodore Roethke

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

— Christina Rossetti

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

— Judith Rossner

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

— Helen Rowland

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

— Arthur Rubinstein

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

— Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

— Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

— Bertrand Russell

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

— Bertrand Russell

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

— Kurt Russell

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

— Francoise Sagan

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

— Edgar Saltus

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

— George Sand

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

— George Sand

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

— George Santayana

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

— May Sarton

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

— Virginia Satir

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

— Paul Scherer

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

— Olive Schreiner

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

— David Seabury

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

— Erich Segal

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

— Erich Segal

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

— Seneca

If you wish to be loved; Love!

— Seneca

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

— Ivan Sergeevich

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

— Sesame Street

Every man loves what he is good at.

— Thomas Shadwell

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

— William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

— William Shakespeare

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

— William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

— William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

— William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

— William Shakespeare

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

— Merle Shan

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

— George Bernard Shaw

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All fair in love and war.

— Francis Edward Smedley

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

— Alexander Smith

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

— Sydney Smith

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

— Wolfman Jack Smith

The hottest love has the coldest end.

— Socrates

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

— Socrates

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

— Socrates

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

— Sophocles

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

— Robert Southey

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

— Herbert Spencer

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

— Germaine De Stael

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

— Germaine De Stael

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

— Konstantin Stanislavisky

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

— David Steindl-Rast

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

— Henri B. Stendhal

Love is stronger than justice.

— Sting

What force is more potent than love?

— Igor Stravinsky

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

— Igor Stravinsky

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

— Anna Strong

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

— Karen Sunde

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

— Bertha Von Suttner