Love Quotes

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are in love, there is no room for fear.

For those who may be hurting over lost love:Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

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.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself