99+ Love Quotes

1.  Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin
2. Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams
3. Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. e. e. cummings
4. So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Robert Browning
5. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
6. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
7. Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. Mitt Romney
8. Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. Shakespeare, William
9. Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull
10. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
11. Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. Kent Nerburn
12. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
13. A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. Lil Wayne
14. Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Bill Cosby
15. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius
16. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha
17. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. Angelina Jolie
18. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern
19. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
20. Love is a serious mental disease. Plato
21. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus Christ
22. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
23. Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. Paulo Coelho
24. In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Paul McCartney
25. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. Lucille Ball
26. There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love Fromm, Erich
27. It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck
28. We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. Pascal, Blaise
29. The cure for all the 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
30. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles
31. I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love. Mitt Romney
32. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
33. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
34. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
35. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis
36. Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran
37. There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
38. Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba
39. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Tori Amos
40. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
41. Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. Doug Coupland
42. People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff. Clint Eastwood
43. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
44. A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel
45. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. Leo Buscaglia
46. Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French
47. I love life because what more is there? Anthony Hopkins
48. Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. La Bruyere, Jean
49. Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. Henry Ward Beecher
50. Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran
51. And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job. Mitt Romney
52. Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewite
53. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
54. A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. Cyrano de Bergerac
55. I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. Julia Child
56. Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically. Lil Wayne
57. Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. William Barclay
58. Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II
59. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken
60. I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn
61. When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen
62. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Wilde, Oscar
63. Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman
64. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
65. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. Keith Sweat
66. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
67. We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope
69. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud
70. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
71. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tzu
72. Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. e. e. cummings
73. When people are lame, they love to blame. Robert Kiyosaki
74. At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish. Hillary Clinton
75. Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.  Unknown
76. What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia
77. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
78. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
79. He that is jealous is not in love. Saint Augustine
80. Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times. LeBron James
81. The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. Niccolo Machiavelli
82. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
83. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa
84. Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
85. All love is lost but upon God alone. William Dunbar
86. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
87. I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. Claude Chabrol
88. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Russell, Bertrand
89. Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor
90. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox
91. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius
92. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. Kris Kristofferson
93. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Katharine Hepburn
94. Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber
95. There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller
96. When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. Helen Hunt Jackson
97. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. Ann Landers
98. Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. William Shakespeare
99. At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Barbara Ehrenreich