Love Qoutes top 200

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Daphne Rae

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

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

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran

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

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

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

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Darren L. Johnson

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber

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

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan

There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

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

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

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

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt



'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

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

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks


The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne



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