Love - Quotes & Sayings
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas MannLove is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom WolfeThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry NewmanLove is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke EllingtonWhat force is more potent than love?
Igor StravinskyLove is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. ForsterThe love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Mortimer AdlerWhen love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
Helen Hunt JacksonAt the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean de la BruyereLove ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra BehnEach moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra BehnLove is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva GaborThe 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. ChildLove is never wrong.
Melissa EtheridgeWhat the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl BaileyThe sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Bryan ProcterWhen 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 BarneyThe richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence DurrellLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset MaughamIt is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric HofferBut love's a malady without a cure.
John DrydenWoe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph ConradPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
StendhalThere's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
Reese WitherspoonIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonBefore I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita RudnerLove is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de UnamunoLove is what you've been through with somebody.
James ThurberWho ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher MarloweThere is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May SartonLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. SheenLove is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton WilderIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor StravinskyThe fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Amelia BarrWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de StaelThe praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. BarrieThe degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis ColeLove is stronger than justice.
StingWe love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril ConnollyIn a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio PorchiaLove is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith ViorstThere is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de LamartineLove is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean AnouilhLove is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean NathanLove is a hole in the heart.
Ben HechtLooking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard BakerThe deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John CheeverLove is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre BretonOne must not trifle with love.
Alfred de MussetI long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
Leslie Fiedler