Love Quotes

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

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.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.