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Love Quotes For Him (Husband / Boyfriend)
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
— John Green
I need you like a heart needs a beat.
— Unknown
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
— Elaine Davis
I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
— Angelita Lim
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
— Unknown
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.
— Unknown
Love Quotes For Her (Wife / Girlfriend)
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
— Hermann Hesse
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
— Pablo Neruda
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
— Oscar Wilde
You make me want to be a better man.
— Melvin Udall
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
— Leo Christopher
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
— A. A. Milne
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
— Brendan Francis
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
— Unknown
Sad Love Quotes
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
— Sarah Dessen
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
— Anais Nin
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
— Euripides
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
— Jane Austen
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
— James Baldwin
In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.
— Jack Kornfield
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
— Bette Davis
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
— C.S. Lewis
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
— Paulo Coelho
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
— Pablo Neruda
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
— Ovid
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.
— Theodore Roethke
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.
— Stephen R. Covey
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
— Unknown
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.
— Faraaz Kazi
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.
— Ella Harper
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
When you think you’re first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.
— David Grayson
Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.
— Susan Polis Schutz
Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the…BURN!
— Syed Arshad
I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?
— Faraaz Kazi
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
— Anaïs Nin
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
— Jim Rohn
There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.
— Tennessee Williams
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.
— Graham Foust
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
— David Levithan
He taught me how to love, but not how to stop.
— Anonymous
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
— George Eliot
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
— Khalil Gibran
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
— Anonymous
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
— Charlie Brown
Funny Love Quotes
Love is sharing your popcorn.
— Charles Schultz
Love is being stupid together.
— Paul Valery
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
— Lily Tomlin
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.
— Lisa Hoffman
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.
— Robert Fulghum
Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.
— Dolly Parton
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.
— John Lennon
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
— Ambrose Bierce
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
— Pearl Bailey
Love is like Heaven, but it can hurt like Hell.
— Unknown
It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do.
— Unknown
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
— Thomas Dewar
Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.
— George Burns
I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.
— Elizabeth Evans
Best Love Quotes
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
— Lao Tzu
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
— Lao Tzu
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
— Mother Teresa
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
— Leo Buscaglia
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
— Dalai Lama
Fortune and love favor the brave.
— Ovid
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
— Helen Keller
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is love there is life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
— Voltaire
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
— Buddha
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
— Khalil Gibran
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
— Khalil Gibran
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
— Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
— Mother Teresa
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
— Jesus Christ
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
— C. S. Lewis
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
— Audrey Hepburn
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
— Paulo Coelho
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
— Sigmund Freud
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— Thomas Aquinas
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
— Will Durant
Only do what your heart tells you.
— Princess Diana
With our love, we could save the world.
— George Harrison
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
— James Thurber
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
— David Byrne
The first duty of love is to listen.
— Paul Tillich
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Great thoughts come from the heart.
— Luc de Clapiers
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
— Marc Chagall
Love is a better teacher than duty.
— Albert Einstein
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
All mankind love a lover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
— Benjamin Franklin
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
— William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
— William Shakespeare
I was adored once too.
— William Shakespeare
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
— Helen Keller
In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
— Maya Angelou
Who, being loved, is poor?
— 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 composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
— Henry David Thoreau
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
— Voltaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
— Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
— Plato
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out. — Plato
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We loved with a love that was more than love.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
— George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
— James Baldwin
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
— James Baldwin
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
— Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
— Buddha
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
— Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
— Khalil Gibran
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
— Mother Teresa
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
— Jesus Christ
Love is the only gold.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
— H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
— H. L. Mencken
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
— Bruce Lee
Love is the beauty of the soul.
— Saint Augustine
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
— Audrey Hepburn
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
— John Wooden
This love is silent.
— T. S. Eliot
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 wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
— Samuel Johnson
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
— Carl Sagan
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
— Francis of Assisi
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
— Pablo Picasso
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is a friendship set to music.
— Joseph Campbell
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
— Rabindranath Tagore
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
— Aldous Huxley
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The way to know life is to love many things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If you wished to be loved, love.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore de Balzac
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
— Honore de Balzac
The more one judges, the less one loves.
— Honore de Balzac
Love is the poetry of the senses.
— Honore de Balzac
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
— Honore de Balzac
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
— Honore de Balzac
Don’t forget to love yourself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
— Paulo Coelho
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
— Bertrand Russell
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
— Bertrand Russell
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
— Leo Buscaglia
We all need each other.
— Leo Buscaglia
You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.
— D. H. Lawrence
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
— D. H. Lawrence
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
— Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
— Victor Hugo
To love is to act.
— Victor Hugo
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
— Blaise Pascal
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
— Blaise Pascal
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
— Rita Rudner
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
— Rumi
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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 transformed.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
— Marcel Proust
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
— e. e. cummings
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
— Elbert Hubbard
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
— George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
— George Eliot
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
— Ken Kesey
Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
— Ken Kesey
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
— Richard Bach
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
— Robert Browning
Love is energy of life.
— Robert Browning
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
— Henri Nouwen
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
— Thomas Carlyle
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
— Joyce Meyer
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
— John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
— John Lennon
To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
— Ayn Rand
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
— Orson Welles
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Absence – that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
Who loves, raves.
— Lord Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings!
— Lord Byron
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
— Jim Morrison
We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Love is always being given where it is not required.
— E. M. Forster
Do all things with love.
— Og Mandino
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
— Thomas Merton
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
— Charles Dickens
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
— John Keats
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
— Princess Diana
Love is metaphysical gravity.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
— Carl Sandburg
Love is blind.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
— Eric Hoffer
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
— Anais Nin
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
— Anais Nin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
— Thomas Fuller
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
— Thomas Fuller
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
— W. H. Auden
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
— Henri Matisse
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
— Bernard Meltzer
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
— Henry Miller
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
— Judy Garland
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
— Miguel de Cervantes
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
— Ovid
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
— Ovid
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
— Duke Ellington
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
— Julie Andrews
Love conquers all.
— Virgil
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
— Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
— Euripides
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
— Jennifer Aniston
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
— Henry Van Dyke
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
— Henry Van Dyke
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
— George Herbert
Love has a tide!
— Helen Hunt Jackson
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
— Gustave Flaubert
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
— Anatole France
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
— Ann Landers
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
— Erich Fromm
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
— Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
— Erich Fromm
People protect what they love.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
— Tom Wolfe
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
— Bob Hope
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
— Joseph Joubert
There are never enough I Love You’s.
— Lenny Bruce
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
— Isabel Allende
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
— John Henry Newman
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Love is love’s reward.
— John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
— John Dryden
But love’s a malady without a cure.
— John Dryden
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
— John Donne
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
— Samuel Beckett
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
— James M. Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
— James M. Barrie
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
— Carlos Santana
There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
— Reese Witherspoon
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
— Helen Rowland
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
— Thomas Moore
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
— Thomas Moore
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
— Billie Holiday
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
— Billie Holiday
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
— Thomas Mann
Love is a great beautifier.
— Louisa May Alcott
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
— Charles Morgan
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
— Igor Stravinsky
What force is more potent than love?
— Igor Stravinsky
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
— Joseph Conrad
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
— Bryan Procter
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
— Cyril Connolly
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
— Mortimer Adler
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
— Friedrich Schiller
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
— Lorraine Hansberry
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
— Tom Robbins
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
— Tom Robbins
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
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
— Albert Ellis
Love is stronger than justice.
— Sting
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Madame de Stael
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
— Madame de Stael
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
— Theodor W. Adorno
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
— Stendhal
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
— Stendhal
Love means not ever 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
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
— Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving.
— Iris Murdoch
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
— Thomas a Kempis
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
— Franklin P. Jones
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
— Dwight L. Moody
Ultimately love is everything.
— M. Scott Peck
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
— Robert Fulghum
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
— Miguel de Unamuno
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
— Lynda Barry
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
— Emily Bronte
When love is not madness, it is not love.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.
— Taraji P. Henson
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
— Virginia Satir
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
— Bryant H. McGill
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
— Jules Renard
Choose your love, Love your choice.
— Thomas S. Monson
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
— Francois Rabelais
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
— Francois Rabelais
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
— Truman Capote
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
— Leigh Hunt
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
— Thornton Wilder
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
— Pierre Corneille
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The best proof of love is trust.
— Joyce Brothers
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
— J. D. Salinger
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
— Petrarch
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
— Petrarch
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
— David Viscott
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
— Brigitte Bardot
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
— Kristin Chenoweth
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
— Peter Ustinov
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
— William Congreve
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
— Max Muller
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
— Max Muller
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
— David Wilkerson
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.
— Shirley MacLaine
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
— William Law
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
— Loretta Young
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
— Diane Ackerman
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
— Jeanette Winterson
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
— Ferdinand Foch
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
— Alexander Smith
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
— Marc Chagall
Love is never wrong.
— Melissa Etheridge
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
— Pearl Bailey
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
— John Ciardi
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
— Andre Breton
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
— Andre Breton
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
— Antonio Porchia
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
— Louise L. Hay
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
It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
— Connie Stevens
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
— Dylan Thomas
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
— Catherine Deneuve
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The crime of loving is forgetting.
— Maurice Chevalier
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
— Gilbert Parker
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
— George Jean Nathan
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
— George Jean Nathan
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
— Martin Buber
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
— Amelia Barr
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
— Theophile Gautier
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
— John Galsworthy
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Our first and last love is self-love.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
— May Sarton
My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
— Nicholas Sparks
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
— Nicholas Sparks
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
— Arthur Rimbaud
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
— Henry Drummond
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
— Henry Drummond
Love comes unseen; we only see it go.
— Henry Austin Dobson
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
— Eva Gabor
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
— Torquato Tasso
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
— Torquato Tasso
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
— Torquato Tasso
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
— Lawrence Durrell
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
— Karl A. Menninger
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
— Karl A. Menninger
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
— Javan
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
— Thomas Shadwell
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
— Werner Erhard
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
— John Cheever
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
— Muriel Spark
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
— John Gay
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
— Ben Hecht
Love is a hole in the heart.
— Ben Hecht
A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
— Armistead Maupin
There is no limit to the power of loving.
— John Morton
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
— Aphra Behn
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
— Samuel Richardson
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
— Robert Burton
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
— Lydia M. Child
One must not trifle with love.
— Alfred de Musset
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
— Theodore Dreiser
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
— Samuel Lover
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
— Ray Stannard Baker
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
— Boethius
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
— Barbara Pym
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— Francis Beaumont
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
— Anne Campbell
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
— Leslie Fiedler
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
— Marie de France
All love is lost but upon God alone.
— William Dunbar
Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.
— Kim Casali
If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.
— Kim Casali
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
— Tammy Wynette
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
— Tammy Wynette
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
— Confucius
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
— Marcus Aurelius
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
— John Lewis
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
— Mark Twain
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
— Khalil Gibran
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
— Mother Teresa
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
— William Shakespeare
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
— John Muir
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
— Khalil Gibran
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
— John Lewis
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
— Bob Marley
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
— Elon Musk
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
— Maria Montessori
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
— Anne Frank
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
— B. F. Skinner
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
— George Washington Carver
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
— George Washington Carver
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else – our time, our love, our resources.
— S. Truett Cathy
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
— Pele
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
— Katharine Hepburn
I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.
— Noel Coward
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
— Brad Henry
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
— Ella Fitzgerald
And I’d like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.
— Little Richard
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
— William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
— William Shakespeare
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
— Maya Angelou
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
— Vince Lombardi
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
— Marcus Aurelius
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
— Ronald Reagan
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
— Plato
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
— James Baldwin
People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
— Donald Trump
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
— Steve Jobs
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
— Khalil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
— Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
— Khalil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
— Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
— Khalil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
— Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
— Khalil Gibran
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
— Walt Disney
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I basically started performing for my mother, going, ‘Love me!’ What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
— Robin Williams
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
— Mother Teresa
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
— Mother Teresa
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
— Jesus Christ
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
— Jesus Christ
I love thrifting.
— Lil Peep
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.
— Dolly Parton
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
— Ernest Hemingway
Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
— Mae West
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.
— Elon Musk
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
— Elon Musk
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
— William Blake
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
— George Orwell
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
— Francis of Assisi
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus’ love.
— Charles Spurgeon
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
— Vincent Van Gogh
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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
Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.
— Billy Graham
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
— Michelangelo
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
— Leo Buscaglia
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
— Leo Buscaglia
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
— Julius Caesar
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
— Marilyn Monroe
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
— Marilyn Monroe
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
— Coco Chanel
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
— Henny Youngman
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
— Arthur Ashe
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there’s anything in life but me and Him.
— Charles R. Swindoll
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
— Marcel Proust
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
— Hippocrates
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
— Elie Wiesel
I could talk food all day. I love good food.
— Tom Brady
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
— Henri Nouwen
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
— George Washington Carver
Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
— Nikki Giovanni
You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
— Brene Brown
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
— Brene Brown
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
— Brene Brown
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
— Brendan Behan
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
— Princess Diana
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
— Princess Diana
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
— Dave Chappelle
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
— Christopher Marlowe
I don’t know how to write love letters.
— Frida Kahlo
We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
— Charles Bukowski
I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
— Snoop Dogg
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
— Eminem
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don’t be an actor because you think you’re going to get famous, because that’s luck.
— Whoopi Goldberg
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.
— Ozzy Osbourne
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
— Paul McCartney
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
— Washington Irving
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don’t think about getting married.
— Gianni Versace
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
— Mao Zedong
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don’t know I’m firing blanks.
— Emo Philips
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
— Josephine Baker
We’re all different. That’s what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It’s not up to me to judge anybody.
— Carrie Underwood
First and foremost, ‘Call Me by Your Name’ is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.
— Timothee Chalamet
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
— George Sand
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s what I love.
— Spike Lee
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
— Gerard Way
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
— Annie Leibovitz
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
— Huey Newton
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
— Billie Holiday
We are what we love.
— Erik Erikson
I’m very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it’s a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it’s because it’s something I love to do.
— Ella Fitzgerald
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
— Boris Johnson
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
— Natalie Portman
I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me.
— Charlotte Bronte
Thankfully now, through the merciful hand of God, I do perceive and have been fully reinformed of his omnipotence. It is truly a love supreme.
— John Coltrane
For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It’s a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.
— Alicia Garza
My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it’s really what I make of it.
— Blueface
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
— Beatrice Wood
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don’t love themselves enough.
— Tom Hiddleston
The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life’s predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.
— Rollo May
My mom is awesome. She’s really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
— Halsey
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
— Saint Ambrose
There’s something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
— Sandra Bullock
I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it’s a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I’m gonna do it whether it’s hard or easy.
— Faith Ringgold
Stay-at-home mums love working mums to feel guilty. They sacrificed everything for their children.
— Katie Hopkins
I don’t know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don’t think folks are born that way; it’s learned and taught out of fear.
— Kenny Leon
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
— Franz Schubert
I mean, I love to try and cook. I’m pretty good, but I’m not saying I’m great.
— Nina Dobrev
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They’re great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we’re going to see amazing things from them.
— Becky Lynch
I think ‘Pose’ is really a groundbreaking television show because we’re telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that.
— Indya Moore
The thing I love about Vegas is there’s something for any type of mood you’re in and something for any kind of adventure you seek out.
— Christina Tosi
I’m very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.
— Kathy Bates
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
— Benjamin Britten
Fashion is a dream. It’s difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it’s not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
— Carolina Herrera
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
— Ken Wilber
I think most girls would say they’d love to play more Tests if it was possible.
— Ellyse Perry
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
— Alison Krauss
I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
— Saint Patrick
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that’s were I developed.
— Dikembe Mutombo
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
— Edward VIII
If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.
— Rachel Boston
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that’s not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
— Ethan Hawke
I’m a good shot and I love guns – I own several.
— Amber Heard
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
— Filippo Brunelleschi
My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.
— Madam C. J. Walker
Games are a media that relies on technology to be innovative and forward thinking and interesting. Personally, I love being at that forefront when something new comes out.
— Hidetaka Miyazaki
It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.
— Cedric the Entertainer
I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.
— Danny Dyer
But I don’t know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It’s not like you’re sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
— Claire Danes
I never want to put my name on something that I don’t love or wouldn’t wear myself.
— Hailey Baldwin
I love a massage – I should go more often, but I think I go once a month.
— Maye Musk
I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.
— Fabio Cannavaro
I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I’m doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?
— Chris O’Donnell
I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with – truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them – and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It’s always been like that, and I hope I won’t be wrong in the future.
— Luca Guadagnino
I’d love to do comedy.
— Lauren German
More than reading – much more than reading, in fact – I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.
— Robert Kurson
I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.
— Ravi Shankar
I’m 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it’s important that when we work on something, we do it with positive intentions, because this energy will be sensed in the design.
— Marcel Wanders
As I always say, you don’t have to love me, but you have to respect that I’m here.
— Conchita Wurst
I dream of a world where we don’t have to talk about unnecessary things like sexuality, who you love.
— Conchita Wurst
I do love to have pictures taken and to pose and wear fabulous gowns, so red carpets are a comfort zone.
— Conchita Wurst
I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre… but they don’t. They expect to sit back and not participate.
— Sarah Kane
I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk… Much… to go on to the next level. I don’t want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
— Summer Phoenix
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
— Kiernan Shipka
I love to work on a set whether it’s mostly men or mostly women, but there’s something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.
— Linda Cardellini
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
— Stand Watie
It’s the love you have for yourself that’s most important.
— Lianne La Havas
‘Agent Mom’ is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love… develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as ‘Agent Mom.’
— Alaina Huffman
I was in ‘Seussical,’ and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: ‘I’ve had it. I can’t do this anymore.’ I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: ‘I want to do something else. I need a little more.’
— Casey Nicholaw
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
— Kaitlyn Dever
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
— Albert Einstein
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
— Albert Einstein
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson