Love Quotes

"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why"

Paul Newman, Actor

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Love alone could waken love"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"Playing live if the thing I love doing best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"No lies, just love"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why"

Bruno Mars, Musician

"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time"

John Dyer, Artist

"To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator