Love Quotations

People over the ages have had a lot to say on this, the most treasured and possibly painful human emotion.

Showing 37 through 61 of 61 quotations in this category.

"The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done."

-F. W. Bourdillon

"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."

-John Donne

"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

-Dinah Shore

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

-Anna Louise Strong

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

-Euripides

"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"

-unknown

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

-Ogden Nash

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

-Nora Roberts

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."

-Rita Rudner

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

-Rita Rudner

"Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause."

-Benedict Spinoza

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."

-The Bible

"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them."

-Mother Teresa

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

-Voltaire

"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."

-unknown

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne

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

-Miguel de Unamuno

"If the purpose of life is to fall in love with someone, then loving you is the purpose of my life."

-unknown

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

-Anita Brookner

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

-unknown

"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."

-unknown

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."

-Matt Groening

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

-George Bernard Shaw

"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

-unknown

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."

-A. A. Milne