Love Quotes - DoolBug

Love Quotes

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

Somerset Maugham

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Cyril Connolly

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

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

William Butler Yeats

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.

Samantha Juarez

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

Marcel Proust

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

Love knows no bounds.

Unknown

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.

Maya Angelou

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

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

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

Erich Fromm

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

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Muriel Spark

I love you - those three words have my life in them.

Alexandrea

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

Unknown

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H.L. Mencken

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Trahern

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.

Sarah Cunningham

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.

Montaigne

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

David Wilkerson

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

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

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Margaret Mead

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Jim Croce

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

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

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Thornton Wilder

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Anonymous

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Steve Winwood

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

Richard Bach

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

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

Oscar Wilde

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

Natalie Cole

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

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Unknown

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

William Carlos Williams

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

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

Federico Fellini

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

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

Mark Twain

Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.

Anonymous

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

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

Anita Brookner

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather