Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 12)

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone"

Adriana Lima, Model

"Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves"

Alphonsus Liguori, Clergyman

"I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way"

Alex Winter, Actor

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here"

Ben E. King, Musician

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do"

Rumi, Poet

"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"Not even old age knows how to love death"

Sophocles, Author

"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool"

Sophocles, Author

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love"

Sophocles, Author

"Smiles are the language of love"

David Hare, Playwright

"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Because of a great love, one is courageous"

Lao Tzu, Author

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"They do not love that do not show their love"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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