Love - Quotes & Sayings

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Tom Wolfe

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Mortimer Adler

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

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 is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

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

Love is never wrong.

Melissa Etheridge

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

Pearl Bailey

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Bryan Procter

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

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence Durrell

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Reese Witherspoon

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

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

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

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

Amelia Barr

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Madame de Stael

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia

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

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Ray Stannard Baker

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler