Love - Quotes & Sayings

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Martin Buber

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Torquato Tasso

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Behan

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

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Thomas Fuller

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

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

Alexander Smith

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

Love has a tide!

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

Kim Casali

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

David Wilkerson

There is no limit to the power of loving.

John Morton

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Henry Austin Dobson

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People protect what they love.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Madame de Stael

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Ninon de L'Enclos

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Henri Matisse

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

Amy Lee

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 A. Baldwin

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

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

I was adored once too.

William Shakespeare

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

Whitney Houston

Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.

Emily Ratajkowski

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Julia Child

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

Martha Stewart

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

Gia Coppola

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Thomas a Kempis

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Thiruvalluvar

The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question.

Aretha Franklin

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Voltaire

Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana