Love Quotes

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

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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