Love Quotes - DoolBug

Love Quotes

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is a verb.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.

Aristotle

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.

Jimi Hollemans

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.

Robin St. John

Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.

Christina Rossetti

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.

William Blake

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendy

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.

John Keats

Give all to love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.

William Wordsworth

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.

Anonymous

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

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

Bertrand Russell

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Buck

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

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

Voltaire

Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Buddha

There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Anonymous

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverb

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

Barbara De Angelis

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !

Mandy Forkner

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

Julie Andrews

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

When Harry Met Sally

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

Mother Theresa

Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Ikhide Oshoma

It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Picasso

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Austen

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.

Alfred Adler

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.

Soloman

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge