Love Quotes - DoolBug

Love Quotes

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

Tom Robbins

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

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

When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

Kuuipo Mark

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.

William Shakespeare

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Eva Gabor

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

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

Peter De Vries

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.

UB40

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Buddha

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

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Unknown

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara De Angelis

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

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

Mallory Jones

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Marguerite De Valois

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

Ba'al Shem Tov

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

Joan Crawford

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.

Unknown

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Theresa

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.

L.O. Baird

Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.

Sholem Aleichem

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

Jim Croce

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.

James Baldwin

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

John Lennon

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

Petrarch

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.

Carl Sandburg

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

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

Anonymous

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

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

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

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

Victor Hugo

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unknown

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

Soloman

Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.

Collin McCarty