Quotations about Love

 

A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter He that has found one has found a treasure (Ecclesiasticus 6:14)

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." ~ Erich Fromm

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. ~ W.H. Auden

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (John I 4:18)

Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ~ William Blake

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. ~ Robert Browning

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. ~ Elizabeth Cameron

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~ Charles Dickens

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. ~ John Dryden

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein

Love is a irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ~ Helen Keller

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it. ~ D.H. Lawrence

All you need is love. ~ John Lennon

In solitude, What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find? ~ John Milton ("Paradise Lost")

To love another person is to see the face of God. (Les Miserables)

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. ~ Thomas Moore

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ~ George Orwell

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~ Pablo Picasso

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ("The Little Prince")

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sands

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ~ William Shakespeare ("Hamlet")

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~ William Shakespeare

And all for love, and nothing for reward. ~ Edmund Spenser

For those who love... time is eternity... ~ Henry Van Dyke

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love those who love you. ~ Voltaire

Women were made to be loved not to be understood. ~ Oscar Wilde

A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love. ~ W.B. Yeats

Once you have loved, You will always love. For what's in your mind may escape, But what's in your heart will remain forever. ~ Brooke Zuroweste

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." ~ John Donne

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ~ Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~ Mother Theresa

 

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