| Topic |
Quote |
Author |
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| Love | "All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time." | Andrews, Julie |
| Love | "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off." | Aquinas, Saint Thomas |
| Love | "The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." | Atwood, Margaret |
| Love | "Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" | Bach, Richard |
| Love | "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." | Bailey, Pearl |
| Love | "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." | Baldwin, James A. |
| Love | "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." | Baldwin, James A. |
| Love | "When love is not madness, it is not love." | Barca, Pedro Calderon de la |
| Love | "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." | Barney, Natalie Clifford |
| Love | "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." | Bergman, Ingrid |
| Love | "Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." | Blanton, Smiley |
| Love | "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." | Boethius, |
| Love | "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." | Bronte, Emily |
| Love | "A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years." | Brooke, Rupert |
| Love | "The best proof of love is trust." | Brothers, Dr. Joyce |
| Love | "Whoso loves believes the impossible." | Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
| Love | "Take away love and our earth is a tomb." | Browning, Robert |
| Love | "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." | Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
| Love | "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." | Bruyere, Jean de la |
| Love | "It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves." | Bulwer, John |
| Love | "Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." | Buscaglia, Leo |
| Love | "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love." | Buscaglia, Leo |
| Love | "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." | Byrne, David |
| Love | "Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler." | Cancian, Francesca M. |
| Love | "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." | Carlyle, Thomas |
| Love | "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." | Carroll, Jonathan |
| Love | "Where there is great love, there are always wishes." | Cather, Willa |
| Love | "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." | Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de |
| Love | "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." | Chesterton, Gilbert K. |
| Love | "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." | Child, Lydia M. |
| Love | "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." | Ciardi, John |
| Love | "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." | Clark, Frank A. |
| Love | "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." | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
| Love | "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." | Colton, Charles Caleb |
| Love | "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." | Conrad, Joseph |
| Love | "Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses." | Dewar, Lord Thomas |
| Love | "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." | Disraeli, Benjamin |
| Love | "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." | Donne, John |
| Love | "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." | Drummond, Henry |
| Love | "To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever." | Drummond, Henry |
| Love | "When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell." | Dryden, John |
| Love | "Love is love's reward." | Dryden, John |
| Love | "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." | Dyer, Dr. Wayne W. |
| Love | "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." | Dyke, Henry Van |
| Love | "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." | Einstein, Albert |
| Love | "Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden." | Eliot, T. S. |
| Love | "The art of love... is largely the art of persistence." | Ellis, Albert |
| Love | "All mankind love a lover." | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Love | "You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from." | Erhard, Werner |
| Love | "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." | Euripides, |
| Love | "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." | Fairbrother, Nan |
| Love | "Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots." | Farmer, Hoosier |
| Love | "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." | Fitzgerald, Zelda |
| Love | "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." | Franken, Rose |
| Love | "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." | Fromm, Erich |
| Love | "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" | Fromm, Erich |
| Love | "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." | Frost, Robert |
| Love | "Love is metaphysical gravity." | Fuller, R. Buckminster |
| Love | "Love is a game that two can play and both win." | Gabor, Eva |
| Love | "Where there is love there is life." | Gandhi, Mohandas |
| Love | "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." | Garland, Judy |
| Love | "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." | Gasset, Jose Ortega y |
| Love | "For you see, each day I love you more - today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." | Gerard, Rosemonde |
| Love | "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." | Gibran, Kahlil |
| Love | "Love does not dominate; it cultivates." | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Love | "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." | Gordon, Julins |
| Love | "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." | Grayson, David |
| Love | "Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex." | Greenberg, Daniel S. |
| Love | "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality." | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Love | "There is only one terminal dignity - love." | Hayes, Helen |
| Love | "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." | Hecht, Ben |
| Love | "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." | Hugo, Victor |
| Love | "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." | Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Love | "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion." | Javan, |
| Love | "I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." | Javan, |
| Love | "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." | Jr., H. Jackson Brown, |
| Love | "A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away." | Keane, Bil |
| Love | "Love is my religion - I could die for it." | Keats, John |
| Love | "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." | Knudsen, Kay |
| Love | "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." | Krishnamurti, Jiddu |
| Love | "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." | Leunig, Michael |
| Love | "It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun." | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
| Love | "Do all things with love." | Mandino, Og |
| Love | "Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." | Maugham, William Somerset |
| Love | "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." | Maugham, William Somerset |
| Love | "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another." | Mencken, H. L. |
| Love | "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." | Milne, A. A. |
| Love | "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." | Mistinguett, |
| Love | "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I." | Montaigne, Michel de |
| Love | "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." | Moore, George |
| Love | "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." | Nathan, George Jean |
| Love | "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." | Nin, Anais |
| Love | "In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." | Nouwens, Hans |
| Love | "In love there are things - bodies and words." | Oates, Joyce Carol |
| Love | "Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." | Overby, Mark |
| Love | "If you want to be loved, be lovable." | Ovid, |
| Love | "The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands." | Penney, Alexander |
| Love | "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." | Plato, |
| Love | "We loved with a love that was more than love." | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Love | "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." | Proust, Marcel |
| Love | "How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it." | Pym, Barbara |
| Love | "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." | Rilke, Rainer Maria |
| Love | "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." | Rilke, Rainer Maria |
| Love | "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." | Robbins, Tom |
| Love | "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." | Rochefoucauld, Francois de La |
| Love | "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." | Rochefoucauld, Francois de La |
| Love | "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires." | Rochefoucauld, Francois de La |
| Love | "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times." | Rudner, Rita |
| Love | "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." | Russell, Bertrand |
| Love | "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." | Sainte-Beauve, Charles Augustin |
| Love | "Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." | Saint-Exupery, Antoine de |
| Love | "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." | Salinger, J. D. |
| Love | "Love means never having to say you're sorry." | Segal, Erich |
| Love | "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words." | Shakespeare, William |
| Love | "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." | Shakespeare, William |
| Love | "Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love." | Shakespeare, William |
| Love | "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Love | "First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Love | "Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away." | Smith, Michael W. |
| Love | "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." | Stendhal, |
| Love | "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." | Strong, Anna Louise |
| Love | "Love is not singular except in syllable." | Taylor, Marvin |
| Love | "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." | Teresa, Mother |
| Love | "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." | Teresa, Mother |
| Love | "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." | Teresa, Mother |
| Love | "We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love." | Teresa, Mother |
| Love | "The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence." | Thomas, Edward |
| Love | "Love is what you've been through with somebody." | Thurber, James |
| Love | "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." | Tzu, Lao |
| Love | "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." | Unamuno, Miguel de |
| Love | "It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love." | Unamuno, Miguel de |
| Love | "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." | Ustinov, Peter |
| Love | "Love is being stupid together." | Valery, Paul |
| Love | "Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway." | Viorst, Judith |
| Love | "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia." | Viorst, Judith |
| Love | "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." | Voltaire, |
| Love | "Who, being loved, is poor?" | Wilde, Oscar |
| Love | "Platonic love is love from the neck up." | Winslow, Thyra Samter |
| Love | "People who are sensible about love are incapable of it." | Yates, Douglas |
