love Quotes (legends)

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere 

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky 

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

Boethius 

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 blind.

Geoffrey Chaucer 

Love alone could waken love.

Pearl S. Buck 

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Francis Beaumont

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht 

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 

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

Ben Hecht 

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

Robert Burton 

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset 

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever

All love is lost but upon God alone.

William Dunbar 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Sai Baba 

Life, Game, Sacrifice We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare 

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

Jimi Hendrix 

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius 

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning 

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha 

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin 

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou 

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

                 

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo 

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

love Quotes (legends)

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Thomas Fuller 

Pleasure, Loving, Beloved

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

Tammy Wynette 

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Bryant H. McGill 

Who loves, raves.

Lord Byron 

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller 

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais 

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne 

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden 

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein 

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder 

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Friedrich Schiller 

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

David Herbert Lawrence 

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence Durrell 

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck 

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

Werner Erhard 

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis 

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud 

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike 

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn 

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden 

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Ovid 

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe 

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly 

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden 

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler 

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia M. Child 

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

love quotes (legends)

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 the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno 

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Jean Racine 

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

Barbara de Angelis 

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 

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

Pearl Bailey

                 

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Brigitte Bardot 

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie 

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

Erich Segal 

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

Joseph Conrad 

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli 

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 

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Henri Matisse

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

Elizabeth Bowen 

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Dylan Thomas 

The truth is that 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 

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

                 

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

Zelda Fitzgerald

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe 

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert 

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 

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

Fulton J. Sheen 

There is no limit to the power of loving.

John Morton 

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall 

Love is when he gives 

you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso 

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

Alphonse de Lamartine 

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Billie Holiday 

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin 

With our love, we could save the world.

George Harrison 

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson 

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning