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Love Quotes

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Daniel Heinsius

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

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

David Wilkerson

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Lao Tzu

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Picasso

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew

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

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

K. Knight

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Mark Twain

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

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

Petrarch

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

Ingrid Bergman

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

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

William Butler Yeats

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

Barbara De Angelis

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

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

Anita Brookner

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

Oscar Wilde

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

William S. Burroughs

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Drewar

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Du Coeur

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

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

Sholem Aleichem

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

Peter Ustinov

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Rumi

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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

Charlie Brown

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

Alexandrea

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

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

Jean Anouilh

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando Battista

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Somerset Maugham

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.

Anonymous

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Henry Drummond

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

William Shakespeare

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

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Samantha Juarez

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Edwin Arnold

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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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

Jeanne Moreau

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.

Robert Herrick