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Good Love quotes: Best famous quotes about Love

Love is metaphysical gravity. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor

Where there is love there is life. – Mohandas Gandhi

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Kahlil Gibran

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. – David Grayson

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. – Daniel S. Greenberg

There is only one terminal dignity – love. – Helen Hayes

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. – Javan

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. – Javan

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane

Love is my religion – I could die for it. – John Keats

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. – John Lennon

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do all things with love. – Og Mandino

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. – W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. – H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. – Michel de Montaigne

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. – George Jean Nathan

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin

In love there are things – bodies and words. – Joyce Carol Oates

Fortune and love favor the brave. – Ovid

If you want to be loved, be lovable. – Ovid

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato

We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe

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

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. – Barbara Pym

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. – Rainer Maria Rilke

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. – Rita Rudner

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J. D. Salinger

Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry. – Erich Segal

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. – George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. – George Bernard Shaw

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. – Henri B. Stendhal

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. – Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. – Mother Teresa

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. – Edward Thomas

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. – James Thurber

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. – Miguel de Unamuno

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. – Judith Viorst

Love conquers all. – Virgil

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. – Woodrow Wyatt

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. – Tammy Wynette

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. – Tammy Wynette

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Good quotes about Love: Some of the best great quotes about Love

All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. – Julie Andrews

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. – Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? – Richard Bach

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. – Pearl Bailey

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

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James A. Baldwin

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. – Honore de Balzac

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love that is not madness is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For man’s greatest crime is to have been born. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. – Natalie Clifford Barney

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. – Smiley Blanton

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. – Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. – Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. – Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. – Boethius

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? – Boethius

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. – Rupert Brooke

The best proof of love is trust. – Joyce Brothers

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. – Robert Browning

Who so loves believes the impossible. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. – Leo Buscaglia

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. – Leo Buscaglia

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. – David Byrne

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. – Thomas Carlyle

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. – Willa Cather

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. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. – Lydia M. Child

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. – Charles Caleb Colton

Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. – William Congreve

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. – Lord Thomas Dewar

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. – Benjamin Disraeli

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. – John Donne

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

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. – Henry Drummond

Love is love’s reward. – John Dryden

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. – John Dryden

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. – T. S. Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. – George Eliot

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. – Albert Ellis

All mankind love a lover. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. – Werner Erhard

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. – Erich Fromm

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

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