Quotes about love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

— A Course In Miracles

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

— Diane Ackerman

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

— Alfred Adler

Love is a great beautifier.

— Louisa May Alcott

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

— Nelson Algren

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

— Woody Allen

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

— Margaret Anderson

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

— Barbara De Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

— Barbara De Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

— Barbara De Angelis

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

— Jean Anouilh

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

— St. Thomas Aquinas

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

— Louis Aragon

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

— Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

— Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

— Hannah Arendt

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

— Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

— Elizabeth Ashley

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

We must love one another or die.

— W. H. Auden

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

— W. H. Auden

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

— W. H. Auden

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

— St. Augustine

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

— St. Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

— St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

— St. Augustine

Love, and do what you like.

— St. Augustine

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

— Marcus Aurelius

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

— Myrtle Auvil

Real love stories never have endings.

— Richard Bach

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

— Francis Bacon

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

— Francis Bacon

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

— Pearl Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

— Pearl Bailey

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

— Honore De Balzac

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

— Richard Bandler

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

— Julian Barnes

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

— Amelia E. Barr

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

— Sir James M. Barrie

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

— Lynda Barry

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

— Roland Barthes

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

— Georges Bataille

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

— Orlando A. Battista

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

— Charles Baudelaire

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

— Jean Baudrillard

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

— Jean Baudrillard

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

— Pierre De Beaumarchais

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

— Ernest Becker

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in the world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

— Aphra Behn

Honor the ocean of love.

— George De Benneville

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

— St. Bernard

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

— St. Bernard

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

— Bible

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

— Bible

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

— Bible

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

— Bible

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

— Bible

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

— Bible

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

— Bible

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

— Bible

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

— Bible

Love is the fulfilling of the Law.

— Bible

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

— Bible

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.

— Bible

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

— Bible

A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

— Ambrose Bierce

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

— Josh Billings

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

— William Blake

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

— Smiley Blanton

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

— Countess of Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

The only victory over love is flight.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

— Paul Bourget

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

— Elizabeth Bowen

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

— Andre Breton

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

— Robert Bridges

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

— Rupert Brooke

All the little emptiness of love!

— Rupert Brooke

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

— Anita Brookner

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

— Charlie Brown

Love without attachment is light.

— Norman O. Brown

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

— Rita Mae Brown

Who so loves believes the impossible.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

— Robert Browning

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

— Jean De La Bruyere

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

— Jean De La Bruyere

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

— Martin Buber

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

— Martin Buber

Love alone could waken love.

— Pearl S. Buck

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

— Buddha

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

— Buddha

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

— Robert Burton