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 | Men always want to be a woman’s first love. What women like is to be a man’s last romance. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 25 likes |
 | Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 19 likes |
 | If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 16 likes |
 | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 13 likes |
| One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 13 likes |
 | Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 12 likes |
 | Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 12 likes |
 | The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 12 likes |
 | Love is a state of temporary psychosis. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 11 likes |
 | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 10 likes |
 | To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 10 likes |
 | Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist 10 likes |
| Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 10 likes |
 | For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 9 likes |
 | If I love you, what business is it of yours? — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Love insists the loved loves back. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 9 likes |
 | If you love something, let it go. If it is yours, it will come back. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 8 likes |
 | Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 7 likes |
 | Without astonishment, there is no love; man and woman would have to be a perpetual surprise to each other. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 7 likes |
 | If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 7 likes |
 | The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
| The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
| Forgive me... for my love –for ruining you with my love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | Love is a great beautifier. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 6 likes |
| Anyone who has experienced a great love, does not care about friendship. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 6 likes |
| Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 6 likes |
| Be worthy love, and love will come. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 6 likes |
 | That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | To love another person is to see the face of God. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 6 likes |
 | Love is being stupid together. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 6 likes |
 | One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 6 likes |
 | Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 6 likes |
 | The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 6 likes |
 | Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 6 likes |
| For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 5 likes |
 | Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 5 likes |
| The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 5 likes |
| Love for life is still possible, only one loves differently: it is like love for a woman whom one does not trust. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 5 likes |
 | In love, one and one are one. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 5 likes |
 | My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 5 likes |
 | It is impossible to love and be wise. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 5 likes |
| True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes |
| One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 5 likes |
| The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 5 likes |
| You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Love is space and time measured by the heart. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 5 likes |
| Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 5 likes |
 | To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 5 likes |
 | We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 5 likes |
| No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else. — Anonymous 4 likes |
 | Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 4 likes |
 | Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes |
 | I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | In Love, victory goes to the man who runs away. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Love affairs are the real only education in life. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
| Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 4 likes |
 | They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | I know of only one duty, and that is to love. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast,” that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 4 likes |
| How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 4 likes |
 | Life in abundance comes only through great love. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
| Love would never leave us alone. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 4 likes |
| You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 4 likes |
| Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
| One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
| Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 4 likes |
 | A love that doesn't feel like eternity actually never started. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 4 likes |
 | The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 4 likes |
 | To love is probably the best way to have, to have is surely the worst way to love. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 4 likes |
| Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 4 likes |
| I am one who loved not wisely but too well. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Othello 4 likes |
| I love you very much, my dear Beaver. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher (his last words to his partner Simone de Beauvoir) 4 likes |
 | Happy anniversary. I love you. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach (last words to his wife) 4 likes |
 | The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
| What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
| Love is my religion - I could die for it. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 3 likes |
 | Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Much Ado about Nothing 3 likes |
| We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Love is the greatest refreshment in life. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 3 likes |
| There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
| I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 3 likes |
| Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes |
| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes |
 | When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex. — Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst 3 likes |
| Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
| If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
| Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- it’s everything except what it is! — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo and Juliet 3 likes |
 | We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
| She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters? — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes |
| We don't need no trouble! What we need is love! — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes |
| There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 3 likes |
| To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
 | It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
| Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
| Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
| They were like two enemies in love with one another. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes |
| The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, and that’s all. It is thus that we should love. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 3 likes |
 | Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 3 likes |
 | In love, the one who doubts, accuses. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 3 likes |
 | We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 3 likes |
| It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 3 likes |
| Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 3 likes |
 | Love believes all things and yet is never deceived. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 3 likes |
 | To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
| If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Twelfth Night 3 likes |
| Grumbling is the death of love. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
| Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.” — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | In my life I have found two things of priceless worth: learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
| But love is blind, and lovers cannot see. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ The Merchant of Venice 3 likes |
 | Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 3 likes |
 | If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 2 likes |
| Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes |
 | Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Poor little thing! She’s gasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 2 likes |
| When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 2 likes |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
| As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
| Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
| I have so much of you in my heart. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 2 likes |
 | Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | My dear, my better half. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 2 likes |
| If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 2 likes |
 | It's love that is inescapable. Sex is the merest accident. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
| In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
| There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
| Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 2 likes |
| I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 2 likes |
 | Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 2 likes |
 | A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an “affair of the heart”. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 2 likes |
| Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. — Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst 2 likes |
| To love is basically the desire to be loved. — Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst 2 likes |
| We must begin to love in order not to fall ill. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
| We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
 | If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 2 likes |
| To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 2 likes |
| When one has to ask, “Am I really in love?” the answer is always “No”. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
| Love is a reciprocal torture. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes |
| Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
| Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
| When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
| Love is the water of life, jump into this water. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
| Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 2 likes |
| Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 2 likes |
 | Love decreases when it stops growing. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician 2 likes |
| Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | One can love more than once, but not the same person. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes |
 | The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Is it not more moral, the free union of two lovers who love each other, than the legitimate union of two beings without love? — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 2 likes |
 | Love is love's reward. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes |
 | A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch priest & author 2 likes |
| Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 2 likes |
| I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
| Life is brief but love is LONG. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 1 likes |
 | In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. |
 | Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. |
 | If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. |
 | A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. |
| Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. |
 | Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. |
| How prettily we swim. Not in water, not on land, but in love. |
 | The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. |
| Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. |
| Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. |
| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. |
| Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. |
| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
| A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. |
 | There are never enough “I love you’s”. |
| What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. |
 | It’s bigamy to love and dream at the same time. |
 | Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | In love, there is always one who suffers and another who is bored. |
| People who are in love suspect nothing or everything. |
| Lovers have a way of using this word “nothing” which implies exactly the opposite. |
| When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues. |
 | I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love! — Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) |
| Love is the unique opportunity to mature, to take shape, to become a world for the love of the loved one. |
| To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass; to love is to last. |
| For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. |
| The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. |
| Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. |
| You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. |
| Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured. |
 | Love had turned into “love affair” with a beginning and an end. |
| I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. |
| Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. |
| It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. |
 | Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. |
| Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. |
 | Intense love always leads to mourning. |
 | You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. |
| Christianity has done a lot for love by making it a sin. |
 | And what would humans be without love?' RARE, said Death. |
 | You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. |
 | Love is truly the most beautiful failure of intelligence. |
| Love is always being worried about the other. |
 | Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. |
| If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. |
 | You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. |
| My God is love and sweetly suffers all. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | Being loved by the world is no substitute for having been loved by one person when you were small. |
| Because I loved myself, I was loved. |
 | My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily. |
| Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. |
| Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. |
| When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. |
| Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. |
 | What a miserable world! Trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. |
| To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. |
| True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it. |
| Love is physics, marriage is chemistry. |
| Who said love is blind? She is the only one who sees sharply: she discovers beauties where others do not notice. |
 | The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. |
 | Because that is when you love somebody – when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. |
| I don't need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| I will always love the false image I had of you. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live. |
 | While no road leads from sensual love to spiritual love, many roads lead from the second to the first. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
| For most, love is probably a form of greed; for the rest of mankind, it is the cult of a suffering and masked divinity. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
 | When winter comes, wrap yourself in a blanket of love. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. |
| A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. |
 | A man is only as good as what he loves. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
| And all I loved, I loved alone. |
 | Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. |
 | To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. |
 | A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. |
 | There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. |
| If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. |
| Love, says Plutarch, silences all other passions. He is the dictator before whom other passions disappear. |
| I love you more than my own skin. |
| You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry. |
| Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then with whoever you want. |
| Where you can't love, don't waste time. |
| The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. |
| At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love. |
| No love can survive muteness. |
 | All terms about love have Greek etymology. Only sex doesn't have. |
| Love is punishment. They punish us for not being able to be alone. |
 | It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
 | I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. |
| There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice. |
 | It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. |
| One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. |
| People happy in love have an air of intensity. |
| If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. |
| Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. |
 | Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. |
 | The Romantic love adds to history its third dimension. |
 | Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage |
| Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. |
| Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss. |
| Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. |
Bible Quotes
 | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. — Epistles of Paul ‐ Corinthians 13:4 6 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | If you wish to be loved, love. Si vis amari, ama. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 109 likes |
 | Now I know what Love is. Nunc scio quid sit Amor. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 79 likes |
| Love conquers all. Omnia vincit amor. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 66 likes |
 | Lovers are lunatics. Amantes sunt amentes. — Terentius, c. 185-159 BC, Roman comic playwright 36 likes |
 | If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ut ameris, amabilis esto. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 33 likes |
| Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love. Amantium irae amoris integratio est. — Terentius, c. 185-159 BC, Roman comic playwright 29 likes |
| Love is the same for all. Amor omnibus idem. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 19 likes |
| Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes. Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus. — Terentius, c. 185-159 BC, Roman comic playwright (meaning: without bread and wine, love freezes) 17 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 3 likes |
 | I met Love I have lived you now, Life! — Kostis Palamas, 1859-1943, Greek poet 3 likes |
 | Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
| One love, one heart, Let's get together and feel alright. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 2 likes |
| Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
| Who is wise in love, love most, say least. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
| Everything I love is born unceasingly Everything I love is always at the beginning. |
| Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me. |
| From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. |
| He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. |
| Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. |
Funny Quotes
 | If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something. — Fran Lebowitz, 1951-, American journalist & writer 4 likes |
 | I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along - but it was easy. He was the only one that came along. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Diogenes said that love is an occupation for the lazy. Διογένης τον έρωτα είπε σχολαζόντων ασχολίαν. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 11 likes |
| The madness of love is the greatest of the blessings of the gods. Επ᾽ ευτυχία τη μεγίστη παρά θεών η τοιαύτη μανία [ο έρως] δίδοται. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Love of course teaches poetry, even to those who had no idea about poetry before. Ποιητήν δ’ άρα Έρως διδάσκει, καν άμουσος ή το πριν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 6 likes |
Proverbs
 | When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 3 likes |
 | Love is friendship without the wings. 3 likes |
| Love makes the world go round. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. — from the film In a Lonely Place (1950) 7 likes |
 | A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. — from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5 likes |
 | I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you. — from the film A Place in the Sun (1951) 5 likes |
 | Love means never having to say you're sorry. — from the film Love Story (1970) 3 likes |
