Selected love quotes

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

2. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

3. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

4. Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

5. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

6. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

7. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

8. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

9. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

10. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

11. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?,' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

12. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

13. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

14. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

15. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

16. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

17. I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

18. I wish they would only take me as I am.

19. Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

20. Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

21. 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.

22. The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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

24. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

25. Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

26. As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

27. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

28. There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

29. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

30. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

31. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

32. No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

33. Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

34. This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.

35. Love is the law, love under will.

36. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

37. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

38. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

39. The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

40. Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

41. Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest. Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled. The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

42. If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

43. It is always that way: between the moment he meets her again and the moment he recognizes her for the woman he loves, he has some distance to go.

44. If I never loved I never would have cried.

45. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

46. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

47. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

48. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

49. Oh, call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

50. Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me!

51. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

52. Love is a pleasing but a various clime.

53. Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

54. A melhor definicao do amor nao vale um beijo de moca namorada.

55. Creio ate que o coracao dela ensinou-me alguma coisa, embora novico, ou por isso mesmo. Nesta materia desaprende-se com o uso e o ignorante e que e douto.

56. She loves him more than he will ever know He loves her more than he will ever show.

57. We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much, There ain't a lady livin' in the land As I'd 'swop' for my dear old Dutch.

58. The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

59. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'T is less of earth than heaven.

60. Look out upon the stars, my love, And shame them with thine eyes.

61. England's sun was slowly setting o'er the hill-tops far away, Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day; And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,- He with footsteps slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair; He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful; she with lips so cold and white, Struggled to keep back the murmur, 'Curfew must not ring to-night.'

62. (How do you handle women swooning over you?) I don't have much luck with women. But I'd like to just concentrate on my work. Hopefully, I'd meet somebody I could fall in love with and have a family with.

63. we sans love equals mob

64. Young love is so hard

65. I've been loving a lie

66. West Side Story

67. Romeo and Juliet

68. What on earth should we do if we had no matches to make, or mar; no 'unfortunate attachments' to shake our heads over; no flirtations to speculate about and comment upon with knowing smiles; no engagements 'on' or 'off' to speak our minds about, nosing out every little circumstance, and ferreting out our game to their very hole, as if all their affairs, their hopes, trials, faults, or wrongs, were being transacted for our own private and peculiar entertainment! Of all forms of gossip - I speak of mere gossip, as distinguished from the carrion-crow and dunghill-fly system of scandal-mongering - this tittle-tattle about love-affairs is the most general, the most odious, and the most dangerous. Every one of us must have known within our own experience many an instance of dawning loves checked, unhappy loves made cruelly public, happy loves embittered, warm, honest loves turned cold, by this horrible system of gossiping about young or unmarried people... ~ Ch. 8

69. In the first days Of my distracting grief, I found myself As women wish to be who love their lords.

70. I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.

71. If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue

72. Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

73. Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

74. As all the perfumes of the vanished day Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray Old love is born anew.

75. On est souvent trompe en amour, souvent blesse et souvent malheureux; mais on aime, et quand on est sur le bord de sa tombe, on se retourne pour regarder en arriere et on se dit : j'ai souffert souvent, je me suis trompe quelquefois, mais j'ai aime. C'est moi qui ai vecu, et non pas un etre factice cree par mon orgueil et mon ennui. (Acte II, Scene V)

76. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

77. Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

78. Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

79. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

80. Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

81. It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

82. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

83. Here's a pot with a cot in a park In a park where the peach-blossoms blew, Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died and were changed into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the may, as they sang; 'T is a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.

84. The windy lights of Autumn flare; I watch the moonlit sails go by; I marvel how men toil and fare, The weary business that they play! Their voyaging is vanity, And fairy gold is all their gain, And all the winds of winter cry, 'My Love returns no more again.'

85. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

86. I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

87. First of all, you have to marry the right person. If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely- by that time, you're both dead. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

88. He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

89. Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

90. How sweet to feel its helpless form Depending thus on me alone! And while I hold it safe and warm What bliss to think it is my own! To feel my hand so kindly prest, To know myself beloved at last, To think my heart has found a rest, My life of solitude is past!

91. But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void? A heart whence warm affections flow, Creator, thou hast given to me, And am I only thus to know How sweet the joys of love would be?

92. 'If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims,' said I, with affected indifference, 'you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised.'

93. 'I settled everything with Mrs. Grey, while you were putting on your bonnet,' replied he. 'She said I might have her consent, if I could obtain yours; and I asked her, in case I should be so happy, to come and live with us - for I was sure you would like it better. But she refused, saying she could now afford to employ an assistant, and would continue the school till she could purchase an annuity sufficient to maintain her in comfortable lodgings; and, meantime, she would spend her vacations alternately with us and your sister, and should be quite contented if you were happy. And so now I have overruled your objections on her account. Have you any other?' 'No - none.' 'You love me then?' said be, fervently pressing my hand. 'Yes.'

94. 'I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now. Don't be angry with me if I am not there in person, alive and well, when you need me. I would like nothing more than to be with you always. Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone. When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Camera, wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don't know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.'

95. When you are next out of doors on a summer night, turn your head towards the zenith. Almost vertically above you will be shining the brightest star of the northern skies - Vega of the Lyre, twenty-six years away at the speed of light, near enough to the point of no return for us short-lived creatures. Past this blue-white beacon, fifty times as brilliant as our sun, we may send our minds and bodies, but never our hearts. For no man will ever turn homewards beyond Vega, to greet again those he knew and loved on Earth.

96. 'The offspring in the marriage of Eros and Logos is tolerance'

97. And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover, Stoop to become your friend!

98. The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it's O to be off and away from the town With a gipsy for my dear!

99. I have laid sorrow to sleep; Love sleeps. She who oft made me weep Now weeps.

100. Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.