99 Emotion & Love Quotes

1.  Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm
2. Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Wilde
3. The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
4. Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats
6. It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine
7. Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch
8. All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place. Mitt Romney
9. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. 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 T.
11. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson
12. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Henry Drummond
13. Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac
14. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin
15. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke
16. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
17. I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. Ednita Nazario
18. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
19. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. Michael Jackson
20. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Ann Landers
21. A heart that loves is always young.  Unknown
22. Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
23. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel
24. Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.  Unknown
25. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin
26. Who loves, raves. Lord Byron
27. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. Jesus Christ
28. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
29. Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz
30. We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean. Will Smith
31. Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn
32. This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Nietzsche
33. 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
34. Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. Christopher Marlowe
35. If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. James Herriot
36. From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes
37. 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
38. Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited. Duke Ellington
39. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
40. 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
41. I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. Esai Morales
42. The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. Michael Jackson
43. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
44. Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
46. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Wyatt, Woodrow
47. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
48. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.  (Song of Solomon 8:7) Bible
49. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno
50. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm
51. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
52. No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato
53. Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Voltaire
54. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Davis, Bette
55. And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
56. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
57. No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Lee Iacocca
58. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa
59. You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. Charlie Sheen
60. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Nietzsche, Friedrich
61. 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
62. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. Sydney J. Harris
63. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. Eminem
64. To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver
65. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
66. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Helen Rowland
67. 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
68. 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
69. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
70. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
71. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Jong, Erica
72. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. Drew Barrymore
73. Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
74. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
75. Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. Ray Bradbury
76. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. Audrey Hepburn
77. Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. Forster
78. The one who loves least controls the relationship. Anon.
79. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey
80. The love of heaven makes one heavenly. William Shakespeare
81. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde
82. My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. Farrah Fawcett
83. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine
84. A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. Frank Morgan
85. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. Robert Louis Stevenson
86. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve
87. The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. Mark Hopkins
88. So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. Swift, Jonathan
89. He is not a lover who does not love forever.  Euripides
90. Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud
91. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Dalai Lama
92. Do you have to have a reason for loving? Brigitte Bardot
93. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
94. If thou must love me, let it be for nought< Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
95. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
96. A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Chuck D.
97. 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
98. Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt
99. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia