Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 31)

"You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"For love is immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"I love to doubt as well as know"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"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"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Love is a reciprocal torture"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages"

Marcel Proust, Author

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things"

Marcel Proust, Author

"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love"

Marcel Proust, Author

"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"People always make war when they say they love peace"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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