Quotes about love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

— Jonathan Swift

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

— Thomas Szasz

We live in the world when we love it.

— Rabindranath Tagore

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

— Johannes Tauler

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

— Frank Tebbets

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

— St. Teresa of Avila

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

— St. Theresa of Lisieux

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

— Thích Nhat Hanh

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

— James Thurber

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

— James Thurber

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

— Lily Tomlin

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

— Brian Tracy

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

— Rev. Dale Turner

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

— Miguel De Unamuno

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

— Source Unknown

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

— Source Unknown

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

— Source Unknown

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

— Source Unknown

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

— Source Unknown

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

— Source Unknown

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

— Source Unknown

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

— Source Unknown

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

— Source Unknown

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

— Source Unknown

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

— Source Unknown

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

— Source Unknown

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

— Source Unknown

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

— Source Unknown

Love is the poetry of the senses.

— Source Unknown

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

— Source Unknown

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

— Source Unknown

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

— Source Unknown

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

— Source Unknown

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

— Source Unknown

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

— Source Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

— Source Unknown

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

— Source Unknown

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

— Source Unknown

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

— Source Unknown

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

— Source Unknown

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

— Source Unknown

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

— Source Unknown

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

— Source Unknown

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

— Source Unknown

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

— Wizard of Oz Movie

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

— Source Unknown

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

— John Updike

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

— A Haiku Verse

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

— Sid Vicious

We were two and had but one heart between us.

— Francois de Montcorbier Villon

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

— Judith Viorst

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

— Judith Viorst

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

— Virgil

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

— Voltaire

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

— Alice Walker

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

— Andy Warhol

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

— Mae West

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

— Mae West

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

— Kim Wilde

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

— Oscar Wilde

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

— Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

— Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

— Oscar Wilde

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

— David Wilkerson

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

— Tennessee Williams

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

— William Carlos Williams

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

— Marianne Williamson

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

— Marianne Williamson

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

— Bruce Willis

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

— Sandy Wilson

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

— Jeanette Winterson

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

— Virginia Woolf

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

— Woodrow Wyatt

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

— Douglas Yates

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

— William Butler Yeats

Love the giver more than the gift.

— Brigham Young

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

— Henny Youngman

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

— Gary Zukav

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

— William Hazlitt

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

— Christopher Marlowe

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

— Maya Angelou

I leave before being left. I decide.

— Brigitte Bardot

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

— Lord Byron