love Quotes (80)

Quotes 80

β€œLove a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
β€œAbsence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Benjamin Franklin
β€œIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”
Igor Stravinsky
β€œA mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”
Arthur Helps
β€œI flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.”
Publius Ovidius Naso
β€œTo fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
Bess Myerson
β€œLove grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
Elbert Hubbard
β€œHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
Russian Proverb
β€œLove: Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that throb as one.”
E.F.J. von Munch Bellinghausen
β€œIt is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
Muriel Spark
β€œOpen rebuke is better than secret love.”
Russian Proverb
β€œBitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
β€œWe pardon to the extent that we love.”
FranΓ§ois de La Rochefoucauld
β€œWhenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
Mahatma Gandhi
β€œGet not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates
β€œLove ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.”
Denis de Rougemont
β€œHe who cannot love must learn to flatter.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
β€œHe who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
β€œLove is not love until love is vulnerable.”
Theodore Roethke
β€œLove is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
Vincent van Gogh
β€œImmature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'”
Erich Fromm
β€œLove isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
Mae West
β€œFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
George Gordon Byron
β€œLove is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Paulo Coelho
β€œA true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman
β€œBlood has to circulate from head to foot; Love has to circulate from high to low.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
β€œDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
Mother Teresa
β€œHow bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!”
Sigmund Freud
β€œOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
β€œLove is more afraid of change than destruction.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
β€œTo learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.”
Anonymous
β€œLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
Henry Louis Mencken
β€œLove is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.”
Anonymous
β€œAll lovers swear more performance than they are able.”
William Shakespeare
β€œRomance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
Benjamin Disraeli
β€œLove is not singular except in syllable.”
Marvin Taylor
β€œLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
β€œLove is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
Tom Wolfe
β€œLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Erich Fromm
β€œLove means to commit yourself without guarantee.”
Anne Campbell
β€œLove looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
Josh Billings
β€œAmbition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
Buddha
β€œWhen one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.”
Ethiopian Proverb
β€œLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
β€œWhere love reigns the impossible may be attained.”
Indian Proverb
β€œPure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
Peace Pilgrim
β€œIntense love does not measure; it just gives.”
Mother Teresa
β€œWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Titus Lucretius Carus
β€œLove is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
Erich Fromm
β€œTo love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Emily Dickinson